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There are less than 200 lots in the final 4th part of 121 auctions. BUT - one of the world's best collections of books on fencing with incunabula. The rarities of Russian first printing. A gift from the first President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal. Beautiful autographs of Mira Abramovna Beilina and her second husband I. Zbarsky, including from I. Brodsky, Tvardovsky, Kassil, Okudzhava. It is possible to deliver part of the lots outside the Russian Federation.
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LOT 32:
A black-and-white lithograph with a description from the book Kemmerer E. A. Tsarskoye Selo Arsenal, or a ...
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A black-and-white lithograph with a description from the book Kemmerer E. A. Tsarskoye Selo Arsenal, or a Collection of weapons belonging to His Majesty the Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich.
St. Petersburg. A. A. Ilyin and N. K. Flige. onethousandeighthundredsixtynine Size 38 x 56 cm. Tears, small losses at the edges; pollution.
XVIII. Persian and Hindu weapons. Fig. Bogdanov, Litogr. A. Ilyina, Fig. on Cam. Conradi.
The illustrations are executed in the technique of tone lithography and chromolithography (pictured on stone by artists Smirnov, R. Berendhof, Volkhovsky, Vasnetsov, Lukoin based on drawings by A. P. Rokstul and N. A. Bogdanov). The lithographed title page, the preface, the contents of the drawings and the explanatory text are in parallel in Russian and French. Each sheet of text is in an ornamental frame.
The beginning of the collection of the Tsarskoye Selo Arsenal was laid by Emperor Nicholas I, and then it was multiplied by Alexander II. It was an extensive collection of medieval weapons, Renaissance weapons made by outstanding gunsmiths of Germany, Italy and Spain. The Eastern Department occupied four halls of the Arsenal — Albanian, Turkish, Indo-Persian and Indo-Muslim, which contained about three thousand copies of the weapons of Oriental masters, striking with the elegance of forms and richness of jewelry. The Old Russian department contained Russian-made weapons: the belt knives of boyars N. I. Romanov and D. I. Godunov, the yushman of Prince V. A. Staritsky, the hunting knife of Emperor Peter the Great, the saber of Hetman I. S. Mazepa, saber stripes belonging to Peter the Great and Prince D. M. Pozharsky, and much more.
