Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien Conservées au Musée Impérial de l'Ermitage, 3 vol., including atlas, text in French and Russian, chromolithographed pictorial title, 53 engraved and 41 chromolithographed plates, 2 folding engraved maps, vignette illustrations, occasional foxing and marginal soiling, contemporary russia-backed boards, spines detached, chipped and worn, spine ends bumped and worn, rubbed, folio, Saint Petersburg, Imprimerie de l'Académie impériale des sciences, 1854. ⁂ Rare monumental work on the antiquities housed at the Hermitage museum published at Emperor Nicolas I's personal expense. The Emperor took a great deal of interest in Russian archaeological finds following the discovery of a Scythian burial mound near Kerch in 1830 (with many of these discoveries featured here). We can trace only one other copy at auction.
Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien Conservées au Musée Impérial de l'Ermitage, 3 vol., including atlas, text in French and Russian, chromolithographed pictorial title, 53 engraved and 41 chromolithographed plates, 2 folding engraved maps, vignette illustrations, occasional foxing and marginal soiling, contemporary russia-backed boards, spines detached, chipped and worn, spine ends bumped and worn, rubbed, folio, Saint Petersburg, Imprimerie de l'Académie impériale des sciences, 1854. ⁂ Rare monumental work on the antiquities housed at the Hermitage museum published at Emperor Nicolas I's personal expense. The Emperor took a great deal of interest in Russian archaeological finds following the discovery of a Scythian burial mound near Kerch in 1830 (with many of these discoveries featured here). We can trace only one other copy at auction.
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