PAULY, Theodore de. Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie . St. Petersburg: F. Bellizard, 1862. 5 parts in one volume, 2° (524 x 384mm). With half-title. 62 chromolithographic costume plates after Karpov, C. Huhn, N. Sauerweid, F. Teichel, Viale, Zakharov, and others, printed by Winckelmann, Berlin, Charpentier or Lemercier, Paris, and Kuhn and sons, Munich. One partly photographic plate of skulls, double-page letterpress table and coloured engraved map. (Some spotting of plates and text.) Publisher's green morocco, lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, gilt edges, green cloth box (box worn). Dedicated to Alexander II and published to commemorate the thousand year jubilee of the Russian Empire -- the founding of the dynasty of Novgorod by the three Rus princes, Rurik, Sineus and Truvor -- Pauly's book is suitably magnificent in size and scope, with plates of a consistently high artistic and technical quality. The short final section covers 'peuples de l'Amérique russe'. Colas 2292: ''L'ouvrage est très rare et c'est l'un des plus beaux sur les différents costumes des peuplades de la Russie'; Lipperheide Kaa 61; Rossica N-303; Sabin 59233.
PAULY, Theodore de. Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie . St. Petersburg: F. Bellizard, 1862. 5 parts in one volume, 2° (524 x 384mm). With half-title. 62 chromolithographic costume plates after Karpov, C. Huhn, N. Sauerweid, F. Teichel, Viale, Zakharov, and others, printed by Winckelmann, Berlin, Charpentier or Lemercier, Paris, and Kuhn and sons, Munich. One partly photographic plate of skulls, double-page letterpress table and coloured engraved map. (Some spotting of plates and text.) Publisher's green morocco, lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, gilt edges, green cloth box (box worn). Dedicated to Alexander II and published to commemorate the thousand year jubilee of the Russian Empire -- the founding of the dynasty of Novgorod by the three Rus princes, Rurik, Sineus and Truvor -- Pauly's book is suitably magnificent in size and scope, with plates of a consistently high artistic and technical quality. The short final section covers 'peuples de l'Amérique russe'. Colas 2292: ''L'ouvrage est très rare et c'est l'un des plus beaux sur les différents costumes des peuplades de la Russie'; Lipperheide Kaa 61; Rossica N-303; Sabin 59233.
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