$12,000
[The Imperial Hunt in Russia from the Late 18th to 19th Centuries]. St. Petersburg, 1911. Volume IV of the set of IV volumes. 370 x 280 mm. 15 colored mounted plates. Bound in original pictorial burgundy morrocco gilt with gilt edges. In original burgundy buckram dust-jacket illustrated by Samokish. Numerous colored and plain illustrations in text, including by A. Benois, K. Lebedev, Pasternak, Repin, Samkoish, and Stepanov. Acquired in Moscow in the 1930's by Dr. Adolphus S. Rumreich Thence by descent Dr. Adolphus S. Rumreich served as the physician at the United States Embassy in Moscow, Russia from 1935 to 1938. While there, he and his wife, Edna Irene Hall Rumreich, assembled a sizeable collection of Russian pre-revolutionary art and books then being sold by the Soviet government. They often accompanied Ambassador Joseph Davies and his wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post, when they visited Torgsin and other Soviet agencies selling antiques to foreign dignitaries.
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2011-04-16
