• Fine Printed Books and Manuscr auction at Christies

    Sale 5475

    Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts

    London, South Kensington

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    7 June 2010

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    • BOGOLIUBOV, Andrei Andreevich.
    Lot 294

    BOGOLIUBOV, Andrei Andreevich. Kobrovyia izdeliia srednei azii. [Carpets of Central Asia.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1908. 2 volumes, plates 2° (c.687 x 508mm), text (c.474 x 345mm). 43 plates, 36 chromolithographed, 2 double-page coloured maps, all loose as issued. (Outer margin of a few plates very lighty browned.) Text: Teppiche Zentralasiens (Leipzig, Karl Hiersemann, 1910), text also supplied (without title) in French and Russian, unbound as issued (light marginal thumb-soiling). Plates in cloth portofolio (spine repaired with adhesive tape, rubbed, label on front cover with closed tear), text in German bound in original printed wrappers (a few tears, lightly soiled).

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    GBP 2,750

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    GBP 1,000 - GBP 2,500

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    BOGOLIUBOV, Andrei Andreevich. Kobrovyia izdeliia srednei azii. [Carpets of Central Asia.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1908. 2 volumes, plates 2° (c.687 x 508mm), text (c.474 x 345mm). 43 plates, 36 chromolithographed, 2 double-page coloured maps, all loose as issued. (Outer margin of a few plates very lighty browned.) Text: Teppiche Zentralasiens (Leipzig, Karl Hiersemann, 1910), text also supplied (without title) in French and Russian, unbound as issued (light marginal thumb-soiling). Plates in cloth portofolio (spine repaired with adhesive tape, rubbed, label on front cover with closed tear), text in German bound in original printed wrappers (a few tears, lightly soiled).

    FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by Bogoliubov to Gustav Frank on the title.

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