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BEKETOV, Platon Petrovich. [Description of the wedding cerem…
See original version (French)
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BEKETOV, Platon Petrovich. [Description of the wedding cerem…
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €7,000
Voluntary lot
Description
BEKETOV, Platon Petrovich.
[Description of the wedding ceremony of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and Tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva].
Moscow, Platon Beketov University Press, 1810.
Small folio (26.5 x 34.5 cm).
(4)-137 pp.: half-title page, colophon, title page, signed preface, 65 etchings (approx. 15.5 x 19.5 cm in the plate) included in the pagination, line-engraved and hand-inked in wash by a contemporary, numbering engraved on the plate, text printed on the reverse of each, title page framed by an embossed frieze.
Fine fawn sheepskin, finely speckled, of the period or slightly later, handmade paper endpapers, smooth decorated spine, gilded fleurons and scrolls, red morocco title label, gilded title, speckled edges (binding rubbed and stained, caps worn down, corners worn, edges rubbed, stains on 4 leaves, unbound, spine partially broken in the middle, slight oxidation at the edges of the leaves, lower right-hand corners slightly soiled from use, scattered stains and pinholes, stains on pp. 43–45, water damage to the two blank azure-coloured leaves, but a sound copy).
Bibliography:
Bobins V, 1485. Obolyaninov, [Catalogue of Illustrated Russian Editions 1725–1860], 522. Gennadi, 113. Fekula Collection, 1699.
Description:
A rare early Russian book.
Full margins. Printed on very thick laid paper.
Complete set.
An illustrated account of the ceremony held on 5 February 1626 to mark the marriage of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich (1596–1645), the first of the Romanovs of Russia, to Eudoxia Streshneva (1608–1645).
This volume, compiled and edited by Platon Petrovich Beketov (1761–1836), is one of the most famous works of his career as a historian and scholar.
The account, combining text and illustrations, describes in detail the preparations for the ceremony, the banquet and the wedding night, as well as the couple’s early days together.
Based on a historical manuscript, it describes the entire ceremony and the various Orthodox rites that took place during it.
It appears that only a few copies remain in circulation: two years after this publication, Beketov’s printing works and stock were destroyed in the Great Fire of Moscow, which was set to combat Napoleon’s army in 1812.
Hand-coloured at the time, here in wash.
Modern Russian ex-libris in pencil on the half-title page.
See original version (French)
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