Nouvelle Collection De Quarante Deux Vues De Saint Petersbourg Et De Ses Environs Dessinees

by Alexander Ivanovich Pluchart

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Bound to style in quarter straight grained red morocco and nineteenth-century paper boards Pluchart's celebrated album of views of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg in all its Imperial splendor, with an extraordinary 44 plates plus a hand-colored map. St. Petersburg was especially lucky with lithography. If all the rest of its images - in paintings, watercolors, engravings, and photographs - were lost and only lithographic views of St. Petersburg remained, even

• Binding: Leather

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