Vente: 348 / Rare Books 17/18. novembre 2008 à Hambourg Lot 539

Pavel Piassetsky - La Mongolie et la Chine. 1883


539
Pavel Piassetsky
La Mongolie et la Chine. 1883
Estimation:
€ 200 / $ 214
Résultat:
€ 156 / $ 166

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Piassetsky, P., Voyage à travers la Mongolie et la Chine. With 1 engr. map, 1 engr. frontispiece and 60 woodcut plates as well as 30 woodcut illustratiuons. Paris, Hachette 1883. Contemp. half calf with top edge gilt. 4to. 3 ll., 563 pp.
Cordier Sp. 2453. - First French edition. - Translated from Russian by A. Kuscinski. - Piassetsky went on an expedition with the Russian colonel Sosnowskij (cf. Henze V, 184). The sketches made on that journey served later as models for this edition's portraits, genre-, city- and landscape depictions by Barclay, Bertrand, Taylor and others - Partly slightly stained, binding scraped and somewhat bumped.




539
Pavel Piassetsky
La Mongolie et la Chine. 1883
Estimation:
€ 200 / $ 214
Résultat:
€ 156 / $ 166

( frais d'adjudication compris)