Kutepov, Nikolai.

4 volumes, 4to (360 x 265mm.), comprising:



I. Velikoknyazheskaya i tsarskaya okhota na Rusi s X po XVI vek. 1896, second edition, 8 plates
II. Tsarskaya okhota na Rusi Tsarei Mikhaila Feodorovicha i Alekseya Mikhailovicha XVII vek. 1898, second edition, 39 plates
III. Tsarskaya i Imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi konets XVII-XVIII vek. 1902, 24 plates, 2 tables at end (one folding)
IV. Imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi konets XVIII i XIX vek. 1911, 15 coloured mounted plates, one plate loose



86 coloured and plain plates, numerous coloured and plain illustrations in text, some heightened with gold, some full-page, mostly by Samokish, volumes I-III bound in original morocco-backed pictorial cloth gilt with gilt edges, volume IV in original pictorial burgundy morocco gilt, burgundy buckram dust-jacket with gilt arms on upper cover, in padded folding box, extremities of vols I-III slightly rubbed, box slightly worn

Fekula 2575; cf. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, vol.I, pp.291-2

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"the four volumes are now rarely found as a set; as such they describe the imperial hunts from the tenth through nineteenth centuries. The illustrations were commissioned from A. Benois, Lancere, Lebedev, L. Pasternak, Repin, Riabushkin, Rubo, Samokish, Serov, Stepanov, Surikov and Vasnetsov among others. this work was the first description of hunting published in russia" (Fekula).