How to understand horses - no copy traced
Ippologiia, ili Nauka o loshadi. Chast I-II [Hippology, or The Science of the Horse. Parts I-II]
Tip. Varshavsk. voennogo okruga, Varshava [Warsaw military district press], 1866-67.
£1,950
First edition of this influential Russian work on horse education and hippiatry, illustrated with 3 plates. Very rare: no copy traced on the market nor in libraries.
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In a most unusual, remarkable artist binding
La Chasse grand-ducale et tsarienne en Russie. Période du Xe au XVIe siècle [with] La Chasse tsarienne en Russie. XVIIe siècle
Expédition pour la confection des papiers d'état, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1896-1900.
'Tsarskaia Okhota': the greatest Russian hunting book in a spectacular and most unusual Belgian binding made of cuir repoussé, incoporating Samokish's design of a falcon with open wings. A great example of this striking luxury book.
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