Voyage en Perse
Paris: Curmer & Lecou (L. Curmer, V. Lecou). Printed by Benard et. Comp, succ. Lacrampe. 1851. Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Full original gilt-stamped cloth boards, rebacked preserving original spine. Upper with central gilt-decorated panel featuring woman in pink dress holding instrument, inside elaborate border of green and gilt floral design inside gilt frame with motifs in red and blue. Lower with gilt-embossed design of woman in blue dress playing instrument inside blind decorative frame. Flat spine in dense gilt design, gilt lettering, green and red labels. Yellow pasted and free endpapers. All edges gilt. , Notes: A fine and rare example of Soltykoff’s travelogue of Persia in superb original decorative French binding imitating the Persian art. Text in French.
Prince Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov (Alexis Soltykoff) (1806–1859) was a Russian artist and traveller in Persia and India. After a relatively brief career in the Russian diplomatic services, Soltykoff moved to Paris in 1840, where he planned his voyages to India and Persia. More common is Soltykoff’s travelogue of India, containing lithographs after his drawings of scenes and people observed during his travels there. The present volume “deals with the time Prince Soltykoff spent in Persia in 1838 at the end of his diplomatic career.”
, Size: Quarto (270 x 180mm), Illustration: Complete with 20 hand-coloured plates as matches index, in addition to a title vignette and another hand-coloured tailpiece vignette. Plates lithographed by Emile Beau and Trayer after drawings by Soltykoff himself, all captioned, numbered, and paginated. , Pages: P. Blank (5). Handcoloured frontispiece. Title. Blank. Title with vignette. Blank. Half-title. Printer’s blank. Introduction title. Blank. Pp. 1-152. Table of contents title. Blank. Table of contents. Blank. List of plates title. Blank. List of plates (2). Blank. Handcoloured vignette. Blank (4)., Category: Book Asia Middle East Iran; Book Plate Books Colour;. Some rubbing to extremities. Light toning, occasional spotting, interior otherwise bright and crisp. Item #B6876
Price: $4,750.00