Illuminated manuscripts from Europe to Central Asia through Greece, the Caucasus, Ethiopia and Arabic regions
Slavianskii i vostochnyi ornament po rukopisiam drevniago i novago vremeni. L'Ornement slave et oriental d'après les manuscrits anciens et modernes
A.A. Reinbot for Ilin, Skt. Peterburg, 1884-87.
£1,950
A complete copy of this magnificent production of high-level Russian art history, here focusing on manuscript decorations over centuries and many various regions, with many superb examples, from Central Europe, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, Central Asia etc.
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Georgian for foreigners in early Soviet Union
SIKHARULIDZE I., P. METREVELI, Salomon GOGLICHIDZE and David GVELESIANI (artist)
Kartuli enis sakhelmdzghvanelo arakartveltatvis: Pirveli Tsigni. Uchebnik gruzinskogo iazyka dlia ne-gruzin. Kniga pervaia… [Textbook of Georgian Language for Non-Georgians: Book One]Poligraftrest, Tbilisi, 1925.
A fascinating, pioneering booklet, whose fragility is witness to printing in early Soviet Georgia. For Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, it seems to be the first such textbook for foreigners. Of extraordinary rarity, with only one other copy traced outside Georgia and 6 copies there; no copy in Russia and none in the Americas.