Live auction - Lot 1080
[Asia - Eurasian steppe]
[Recueil d'antiquités de la Scythie. Atlas. Publié par la Commission impériale archéologique [...].
Saint Petersburg, "Imprimerie de l'Académie impériale des sciences", 1866-1872]
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
2 instalments lge folio; 46 pl. (most margins frayed, sl. marg. soiling, some pl. rubbed, sl. foxing on some pl. of 2nd instal.).
In ff., in a publ. portfolio (used, wrapper margins frayed).
First edition of the Atlas only. Complete with the 46 plates, incl. some chromolithographs partly heightened with Arabic gum. Part 1 with 2 original front wrappers in French and Russian, part 2 with original front wrapper only in Russian.
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