Kurgany: Slučajnyja Arheologicheskіja Nahodki bliz Mestechka Smelya. [Second volume only]
St. Petersburg: B.C. Balasheva. 1894. Binding: Half brown cloth over marbled paper boards. Spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. , Notes: Text in Russian Cyrillic.
Good example. Profusely illustrated. Volume 2 only.
Count Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Бо́бринский) (1852 – 1927) was a Russian historian and statesman from the Bobrinsky family. For over thirty years Bobrinsky was chairman of the Imperial Archeological Commission, which under his guidance greatly increased its financing and staffing. He was the first to explore Scythian burial mounds (kurgans) scattered across his Middle Dnieper estates. He also led the first excavations near Kerch and Sevastopol, describing some of his findings in the monograph on Tauric Chersonesos (1905). Bobrinsky was in charge of the extraction and publication of the Pereshchepina hoard. He also took part in digging the Solokha kurgan where his son found a famous Scythian golden comb.
, Size: Folio (385 x 290 mm), Category: Book Russia; Book Europe Ukraine; Book Science & Technology;. Some wear to boards, some staining and mold to interior, hinges weakening. Item #B7289
Price: $450.00