$1,020
St. Petersburg: Manufacture des Papiers de l'Etat, 1908. 690 x 510 mm. Complete set of 43 plates, 36 in colour, and bilingual Russian and French text loosely inserted, the whole loose in 2 fascicule wrappers. wrappers torn and defective but plates in generally good condition. 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
