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Alexandre IACOVLEFF: Dessins et Peintures d'Asie Exécutés au / 1st Edition

by IACOVLEFF, Alexandre [Aleksandr YAKOVLEV or JACOVLEFF

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Dessins et Peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au cours de l'Expedition Citroën Centre-Asie. Troisième mission, G.-M. Haardt [et] L. Audouin-Dubreuil Author: IACOVLEFF, Alexandre [Aleksandr YAKOVLEV or JACOVLEFF] Title: Dessins et Peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au cours de l'Expedition Citroën Centre-Asie. Troisième mission, G.-M. Haardt [et] L. Audouin-Dubreuil Publication: Paris, Édité sous la direction de Lucien Vogel chez Jules Meynial, 1934 Edition: First Edition Description: A printed box-form thick card portfolio with ribbon ties (external dimensions 392 × 290 mm), containing a thin volume of text ('Croquis de Route et Notes de Voyage', [36] pages in stab-sewn printed wrappers, extensively illustrated) and a suite of 50 loose colour plates, each printed on a numbered and captioned bifolium. Portfolio tanned, bowed and slightly marked, with a short split to the foot of the upper joint; ribbon ties frayed; wrappers of the text volume a little creased; plates are generally a little offset onto the conjugate leaf, and about a quarter of them have a very short split at the foot of the fold; the first plate is discoloured from contact with the binding of the text volume; these are relatively trifling blemishes that do not detract from what essentially an excellent example of a beautiful publication. Number 117 of 500 copies of the trade edition (a further 200 'hors-de-commerce' copies were also printed, as well as a deluxe edition of 20 copies). This suite of plates is the lavish pictori

  • Publisher: Édité sous la direction de Lucien Vogel chez Jules Meynial
  • Year: 1934
  • Binding: Softcover
  • Condition: Very Good

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