$14,400
[The Royal and Imperial Hunt in Russia from the Late 17th to 18th Centuries]. St. Petersburg, 1902. Volume III of the set of IV volumes. Numbered 69. 370 x 280 mm. 24 plates, 2 tables at the end (one folding). Attached fabric bookmark with illustration of falconer. Bound in original morocco-backed pictorial cloth gilt with gilt edges. The front cover with decorative metal corners at upper right and left depicting the Imperial double-headed eagle. In original blue buckram dust-jacket illustrated by Samokish. Numerous colored and plain illustrations in text, including by A. Benois, Vasnetsov, Lanceray, K. Lebedev, Pasternak, Repin, Riabushkin, Samkoish, Stepanov, Surikov, and Serov. Acquired in Moscow in the 1930's by Dr. Adolphus S. Rumreich Thence by descent Dr. Adolphus S. Rumreich served as the physician at the United States Embassy in Moscow, Russia from 1935 to 1938. While there, he and his wife, Edna Irene Hall Rumreich, assembled a sizeable collection of Russian pre-revolutionary art and books then being sold by the Soviet government. They often accompanied Ambassador Joseph Davies and his wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post, when they visited Torgsin and other Soviet agencies selling antiques to foreign dignitaries.
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2011-04-16
