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Kondakov | Histoire et monuments des émaux Byzantins, Frankfurt, 1892, Prince of Korea's copy

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

July 18, 02:27 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov


Histoire et monuments des émaux Byzantins. Frankfurt: [A. Osterrieth], 1892


LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, copy no.156 for the King of Korea, 4to (359 x 274mm.), dedication leaf printed in gold and colours on an embossed silver ground, portrait of Zvenigorodsky, chromo-lithographed title-page, 31 plates and 4 subtitles, black and white illustrations, original morocco blocked, decorated and lettered in gold and black, with embroidered bookmark, decorative gilt endpapers, edges gilt and gauffered, bookseller's label of "C.E. Rappaport, Libreria-Antiquaria, Roma", without embroidered wrapper


A fine copy of this lavish description of A.V. Zvenigorodsky's collection of tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantine enamels, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Of the 600 copies printed, 200 each were in French, German and Russian.


LITERATURE

Fekula 6705 ("magnificent"); Vengerov, Old Russian Books 77


PROVENANCE

Yi Hieung [Yi Ha-eung] (1820-1898), Prince of Korea: manuscript dedication to limitation page

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