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PROPERTY FROM THE SPORTING AND TRAVEL LIBRARY OF ARNOLD "JAKE" JOHNSON
[Russia — Białowieża Forest] — Georgii Kartsov
'BELOVEZHSKAIA PUSHCHA (THE FOREST OF BIALOWIEZA; A HISTORICAL STUDY, CONTEMPORARY HUNTING AND THE IMPERIAL HUNT IN THE FOREST)'. ST. PETERSBURG: 1903
Folio (14 x 10 3/4 in.; 355 x 273mm). Colored frontispiece, text in Russian, 22 heliograph plates, numerous in-text illustrations, some in color, by M.A. Zichy and N.S. Samokish, 9 maps. Original roan-backed green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board decoratively gilt-lettered with floral motif, spine gilt-lettered, printed endpapers; spine worn with loss to roan, edges rubbed. [With]: 'Karta Belovezhskoi Pushchi' (Map of the Forest of Bialowieza and Its Lodges in Grodno Province). St. Petersburg, 1910. Hand-colored map (23 3/8 x 29 1/8 in.; 670 x 740mm), folding to small 4to. Map backed with silk. Contemporary morocco folder, boards gilt-ruled, gilt crown device to upper cover, watered silk doublures; corners and spine rubbed with loss to morocco.
Estimate
5,000
—
7,000
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