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DÉMIDOFF (Anatole). - Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et l…
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DÉMIDOFF (Anatole). - Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et l…
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Estimate €700 - €900
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Description
DÉMIDOFF (Anatole). - Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécuté en 1837, -- Voyage pittoresque et archéologique en Russie exécuté en 1839. Paris, Gihaut Frères, s. d. [1838-1848, & 1842]. Together 2 volumes in-folio, half calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding).
The only albums of these journeys to southern Russia, organised at the expense of Count Demidoff, whose plates constitute a precious ethnological document.
- 92 lithographed plates on Chine collé by Auguste RAFFET,
of 100 (numbered 1 to 17, 19 to 61 and 69 to 100).
Nine plates bear intermediate titles: - Hungary, Danube 1837" (plate 2), - "Wallachia. 1837" (pl. 9), - "Moldavia. 1837" (pl. 20), - "Southern Russia. Bessarabia." (pl. 25), - "Crimea 1st part" (pl. 31), - "Camp of Vosnessensk. 1837" (pl. 55), - "Crimea 2nd part" (pl. 69), - "Constantinople and Smyrna" (pl. 81), - "Portraits of the Members of the Scientific Expedition in Southern Russia" (pl. 88, including those of Démidoff and Raffet).
Plates 18 & 62 to 68 are unbound in this copy, as are the 64 pp. of explanatory text.
-- 48 lithographed and tinted plates by André DURAND,
of 100 (numbered 1 to 27, 29, 31 to 36, 38 to 41, 44 to 50, 52, 60 & 62).
Boards 28, 30, 37, 42, 43, 51, 53 to 59, 61 & 63 to 100 have not been bound in this copy.
Bindings damaged; heavy foxing on several plates. Brunet, II, 583-584; Carteret, III, 197; Vicaire, III, 167-168.
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About the sale
Paintings, Drawings, Works of Art and Fine Furnishings at La Chaudronnerie
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Auction time
06/20/2026 at 2:00 PM
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