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PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION
The People of Russia
95 hand-colored engravings, 1812-13
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The People of Russia
95 hand-colored engravings, 1812-13
RECHBERG, Karl, Graf von (1775-1847) and DEPPING, George Bernhard (1784-1853). Les peuples de la Russie, ou description des moeurs, usages et costumes des diverses nations de l’Empire de Russie. Paris: D. Colas, 1812-13.
A magnificent copy of the first edition in an unusual, possibly Russian, binding. With the subscription prospectus laid in. The artist Emelian Mikhailovich Karnejeff joined G. M. Springporten’s 1802-05 survey of the Russian hinterland including the breadth of Siberia, the Caucasus, and the Urals, and here includes detailed ethnographic portraits of two Alaskans (of the Kodiak / Fox Islands, as well as of the Aleutian Islands). In addition to depicting Slavs, Tartars, Caucasians, and Mongols, Karnejeff recognizes the contributions of "peuples immigrés" to Russian society, including portraits of Armenian, Persian, Chinese, and Japanese subjects in his survey. Karnejeff’s watercolors (some of which survive at the Russian Historical Museum in Moscow) impressed Rechberg, the Bavarian ambassador to the court of Alexander I, who commissioned the present volumes. The work was published in French due to its status as a lingua franca: from the subscription leaf, the dedication to Tsar Alexander I, and the plates captioned in Russian, it is evident that the work was intended to be distributed throughout Europe and especially in the Russian Empire (“A Pétersbourg, chez Alici.”) This copy is lacking, as usual, the plate of the "Cosaques du Don." The "indecent" and often suppressed "Le Bain russe" is, however, present here. Colas 2491; Fekula 3568; Lipperheide 1348.
Two volumes, folio (465 x 380mm). Half-titles, 95 [of 96] engraved and aquatinted plates, printed in color by A. Manz, Scotnikoff, Melnikoff, Hesse, Gros, Adam and others, after E. Karnejeff and partially hand-colored (a few spots; lacking as usual plate 18). Full calf gilt, with gilt Russian imperial monogram at foot of both spines (untraced) and two spine straps tooled with gilt stars. Provenance: Harris Hollin (bookplate).
95 hand-colored engravings, 1812-13
RECHBERG, Karl, Graf von (1775-1847) and DEPPING, George Bernhard (1784-1853). Les peuples de la Russie, ou description des moeurs, usages et costumes des diverses nations de l’Empire de Russie. Paris: D. Colas, 1812-13.
A magnificent copy of the first edition in an unusual, possibly Russian, binding. With the subscription prospectus laid in. The artist Emelian Mikhailovich Karnejeff joined G. M. Springporten’s 1802-05 survey of the Russian hinterland including the breadth of Siberia, the Caucasus, and the Urals, and here includes detailed ethnographic portraits of two Alaskans (of the Kodiak / Fox Islands, as well as of the Aleutian Islands). In addition to depicting Slavs, Tartars, Caucasians, and Mongols, Karnejeff recognizes the contributions of "peuples immigrés" to Russian society, including portraits of Armenian, Persian, Chinese, and Japanese subjects in his survey. Karnejeff’s watercolors (some of which survive at the Russian Historical Museum in Moscow) impressed Rechberg, the Bavarian ambassador to the court of Alexander I, who commissioned the present volumes. The work was published in French due to its status as a lingua franca: from the subscription leaf, the dedication to Tsar Alexander I, and the plates captioned in Russian, it is evident that the work was intended to be distributed throughout Europe and especially in the Russian Empire (“A Pétersbourg, chez Alici.”) This copy is lacking, as usual, the plate of the "Cosaques du Don." The "indecent" and often suppressed "Le Bain russe" is, however, present here. Colas 2491; Fekula 3568; Lipperheide 1348.
Two volumes, folio (465 x 380mm). Half-titles, 95 [of 96] engraved and aquatinted plates, printed in color by A. Manz, Scotnikoff, Melnikoff, Hesse, Gros, Adam and others, after E. Karnejeff and partially hand-colored (a few spots; lacking as usual plate 18). Full calf gilt, with gilt Russian imperial monogram at foot of both spines (untraced) and two spine straps tooled with gilt stars. Provenance: Harris Hollin (bookplate).
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