Online auction - Lot 431
[Russia - Crimea]
[Russia di Chopin ... adorna di centosessenta incisioni]. 'Tavole'.
[Venice, G. Antonelli, 1842]
Starting bid: €
80
€ 100 / 120
Bidding via DrouotLot description
8vo: 9 maps and 155 pl. (with 4 maps more than initially intended, sm. spots, some marg. tears)
Contemp. green sheep.
1st It. ed., picture album only, of J.-M. Chopin's 'Russie' (Paris, 1838). With 155 portraits, topographical views and local scenes of Russia (99 pl.), Crimea (8 pl.), Caucasus (12 pl.) and Armenia (36 pl.), engr. by Bernasconi, Buttanzon, Conte, Pozzo, Tiozzo, Simonetti, Zanetti, M. Zuliani, a.o. and 9 maps by Thunot Duvotenay: 1. Carta della Siberia (numbered 33). - 2-4. Litorale del Mare Baltico/Mar Nero/Mar Caspio. - 5. Siberia ed America Russa. - 6. Tauride/Crimea. - 7. Regione Caucasia. - 8. Armenia antica. - 9. Armenia.