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RUSSIA - ZVENIGORODSKOI COLLECTION STASOV (VLADIMIR VASILEVICH) Livre du livre Les Emaux Byzantins [Istoriia Knigi Vizantiskiia Emali A.V. Zvenigorodskago], FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, St. Petersburg, 1898 image 1
RUSSIA - ZVENIGORODSKOI COLLECTION STASOV (VLADIMIR VASILEVICH) Livre du livre Les Emaux Byzantins [Istoriia Knigi Vizantiskiia Emali A.V. Zvenigorodskago], FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, St. Petersburg, 1898 image 2
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RUSSIA - ZVENIGORODSKOI COLLECTION
STASOV (VLADIMIR VASILEVICH) Livre du livre Les Emaux Byzantins [Istoriia Knigi Vizantiskiia Emali A.V. Zvenigorodskago], FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, St. Petersburg, 1898

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RUSSIA - ZVENIGORODSKOI COLLECTION

STASOV (VLADIMIR VASILEVICH) Livre du livre Les Emaux Byzantins [Istoriia Knigi Vizantiskiia Emali A.V. Zvenigorodskago], FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this copy numbered "71", text in French, lithographed title printed in red and black, limitation leaf printed in gilt and black, 6 plates (2 chromolithographed), printed tissue guards, blue and gilt printed decorative endpapers, publisher's white pictorial cloth blocked in gilt and black, spine similarly decorated, page edges richly ornamented in red and gilt, 4to (302 x 200mm.), St. Petersburg, 1898

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A VERY FINE COPY of a beautifully presented work by Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906), director of the art department at the Imperial Public Library and a member of the Russian Archaeological Society, celebrating the catalogue of Zvenigorodskoi's exceptional collection of Byzantine enamels (published in 1892, see previous lot).

Provenance: Byzantine Library of Panos A. Zamvakellis, author of Introduction To Byzantine Painting (1985), bookplate.

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