One of the greatest museums of Russia
Publication: Société moderne d'impressions for Nilsson, Paris, [ca. 1927-28].
LOUKOMSKI [LUKOMSKII] Georgii Krestsenovich, Le Kreml (Kremlin) de Moscou. Ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses trésors d’artA complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin and its fantastic museums. Read More
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A complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin, often found incomplete. The 120 plates include photographic views and details of the Kremlin buildings and churches, as well as the treasures still housed in this fortress: interiors of churches, furniture, icons and their decorations, luxurious religious book bindings, clothes and objects, princely helmets and harnesses etc.
Lukomskiy (1884-1952) was a curator of Tsarskoe Selo and a knowledgeable art historian specialized in Russian art and archaeology. Most of his numerous publications appeared in French first, like this one.
Provenance
Avenir Nizoff (émigré, pianist, who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a very large library of Russian works of all kinds, and often rebound his books himself, as it is probably the case here).
Item number
959
Quarto (32.5 x 25.5 cm). Half-title, VIII incl. title, 29 pp., 120 plates with photographic reproductions tipped-in, sometimes 2 or 4 a plate, captions in French, [4] pp. bibliography and table of contents.
Binding
Loose as issued in original pictorial boards decorated with colour floral ornaments, double-headed eagles and title in centre of front cover and spine, ties.
Condition
Rubbed, spine reinforced with red calf (most probably by Nizoff himself); occasional foxing to mounts not affecting the photographs, a few creases, edges of leaves a bit rubbed.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph, Historical Sketch of Moscow illustrated by Twelve Views of different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin, etcThe first colour-plate book on Moscow: a lovely example, uncut in original publisher's boards, with the 12 plates in fine original hand-colour. Published in the wake of Napoleon's catastrophic Campagne de Russie. Read More
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CHAUDOIR, Baron Stanislas de, Kitaiskie, manchzhurskie, mongolskie, iliiskie, koreiskie, iaponskie, aninanskie i neizvestnye monety, medali, assignatsii, menialnye bilety, zolotye i serebrianye slitki.
The attractive catalogue of Asian, esp. Chinese numismatics compiled by one of the greatest coin collectors of the early 19th century. A lovely example of the rarer first Russian issue, in a fine Russian binding - a rare book indeed, with more than 60 plates. Read More
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