Grosvenor Prints

The Russian Empire, with its gradual Acquisitions traced and Explained.
Printed by R. Juigné, 17, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square. [n.d., c.1817.]
Hand coloured engraving with surrounding letter press text and large margins. Sheet size: 495 x 715mm (19½ x 28¼").
A map of the Russian Empire, stretching from Finland and Walachia to Kamchatka, surrounded by letterpress descriptions, published in an English edition of Le Sage's Historical Atlas.
[Ref: 36875] £240.00

Russia. ____Yet there life glows; Yet cherish'd there, beneath the shining waste...Or beauteous freakt with many a mingles hue, Thousands besides, the costly pride of courts. Vide Thomsons Winter.
C. Ansell delin.t W. Nutter sculp.t
[n.d. c.1822.]
Stipple, rare. 291 x 215mm (11½ x 8½"). Cut, messy.
In a snowy mountain, a woman with a headscarf, standing in the centre, holding a bird in her hand; a man next to her, carrying a quiver and a bow on his back, leaning against a sledge on the right which another figure rides and a reindeer pulls; a log house on the left.
See Ref: 9258 for earlier in tact publication.
[Ref: 34752] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Famille Russe Attaquee Par Des Loups.
Peint par Schopin. Grave par Jazet. Imprimerie de Goupil et Vibert.
Goupil & Vibert, Editeurs. Berlin, Verlag von L. Sachse & Cie. Paris _ 15, Boulevart Montmartre, & 7, Rue de Lancry. London_25, Berners St. Oxford St. _ Publd. 9ber 1st./44 [n.d., c.1850].
Aquatint, 530 x 650mm. 20¾ x 25½".
Dramatic image showing a pack of wolves attacking a terrified mother and two children in horse-drawn sleigh. One horse in the background of this wintry composition has fallen and is about to be engulfed by the ravenous pack.
[Ref: 8516] £490.00

Scheeps-tocht, in den Jaare 1596. naar Nova Zembla ondernoomen.
[Jan Luyken, (1649-1712)]
[n.d., c.1730.]
Engraving. 280 x 345mm, 11 x 13½".
A depiction of the crew of Willem Barentsz's ship 'Mercury' trying to harvest the tusks of a herd of nearly 200 walruses they encounted on the Orange Islands near Novaya Zemlya. As it was more dificult than they expected they only came away with a few tusks.
See Ref No. 11025.
[Ref: 11028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Donna della Samogizia. Femme de la Samoiedes.
C.P.E.S. Apud Theodorum Viero Ven. [n.d., c.1790.]
Engraving, 280 x 200mm. 11 x 8". Lightly soiled.
A Samoyed woman of Siberia carrying her child behind her back. Plate to 'Raccolta di ... Stampe, che rappresentano figure ed abiti di varie nazioni, etc' in 3 parts, 1783-91, by Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819), engraver and publisher in Venice.
[Ref: 11091] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

A Uralsky Cossac.
R.K.Porter del.t. J.C.Stadler sculp.t. P.A. Herbert direx.t.
[London: John Stockdale?, 1821.]
Coloured aquatint with very large margins. 270 x 230mm (10½ x 9"), watermarked 'J. Whatman 1821'. Worm holes in unprinted area of plate. Crease on right.
From Robert Ker Porter's 'Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808'. First published in 1809 by Richard Phillips, Stockdale published the second edition in 1813.
Abbey: Travel 13.
[Ref: 34447] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Prince Immiretien.
Chopin del.t. Lith. de G. Engelmann.
[n.d., c.1828.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 140mm (6¾ x 5½"). Very large margins.
Lithographed by Godefroy Engelmann after Jean-Marie Chopin (1796-1871), one of 16 plates in Chopin's 'Costumes Russes modernes'.
[Ref: 37874] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

The Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three Engravings. With Descriptions in English and French.
[by William Alexander.]
London: Printed for W. Miller, Old Bond Street, by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn. MDCCIII [1803].
First Edition, first issue. Folio, original full calf calf gilt, morocco title labels on spine; pp. [18], 73 aquatint plates with fine original colour, each with a page of letterpress in English and French. Plates and text watermarked 1796 as called for by Abbey. Boards detached.
A fine costume plate book, with illustrations of the peoples of Scandinavia, Central Asia and the Far East. The plates were copied from a four-volume work by J.G. Georgi published in St. Petersburg, 1776-80. According to Abbey: ''The text to this English edition is said to be by William Alexander''.
Abbey, Travel, 244.
[Ref: 55185] £1,300.00 view all images for this item

[No 1. A Laplander.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Portrait of a Laplander, carrying fish and nets, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37868] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Russia - Plate 1. [A Laplander.]
[London: John Murray, c.1814.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate, edges soiled.
Portrait of a Laplander, carrying fish and nets, the frontispiece of William Alexander's 'Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians'.
[Ref: 37909] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

No 2. [A Woman of Lapland.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Portrait of a Laplander woman, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text. Such women are described as 'obliging, modest and extremely irritable'.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37869] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Russia - Plate 4. [A Female Peasant of Finland.]
[London: John Murray, c.1814.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate, edges soiled.
Portrait of a Finnish woman, with an embroidered apron, from William Alexander's 'Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians'.
[Ref: 37910] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Russia - Plate 5. [A Woman of Finland, in her Summer holiday dress.]
[London: John Murray, c.1814.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 230 x 155mm (9 x 6"), on Whatman paper. Trimmed within plate, edges soiled.
Portrait of a Finnish woman, from William Alexander's 'Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians'.
[Ref: 37912] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

No 45. [An Ostiak, in His Winter Hunting Dress.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed to plate at sides
An Ostyak of Siberia, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text, which also explains that 'For the purpose of travelling over the snow, they fasten a large piece of board to their feet, not unlike a canoe in shape'. Early ski interest.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 55603] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

No 37. [A Yakut in his Hunting Dress.] [&] No 38. [The Back Figures of a Yakut in his Hunting Dress.
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Pair of coloured stipples with etching. Each sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
The front and back of a Yakut of Siberia, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the titles taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37871] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

No 45. [A Samoyede.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides, slight staining.
Archery portrait of a Siberian tribesman, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37873] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

No 45. [A Tongusian in his Hunting Dress.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides, slight staining.
Archery portrait of a Siberian tribesman, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37864] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

No 46. [A Tongusian in his Usual Dress.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides, slight staining.
Archery portrait of a Siberian tribesman, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37865] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

No 58. [A Tschutskian in Armour, with his wife and child.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides, slight staining.
Archery print from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37863] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

No 61. [A Kurilian.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Archery portrait of a tribesman of the Kurile Islands, between Kamchatka and Japan, from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37866] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

No 64. [A Turkoman.]
[Engraved by J. Dadley.]
[London: John Stockdale, 1811.]
Coloured stipple with etching. Sheet 365 x 255mm (14¼ x 10"). Trimmed into plate at sides.
Archery portrait of a tribesman of Central Asia from E. Harding's 'Costume of the Russian Empire', with the title taken from the text.
See Abbey Travel 244-246, but an edition with this plate number not listed.
[Ref: 37867] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Farm yard.
Drawn & Etched by John Augustus Atkinson.
Published as the Act directs May 10, 1804 by J.A. Atkinson & Ja.s Walker, No 3 Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess.rs John & Josiah Boydell, Pall Mall & Cheapside, London.
Coloured soft-ground etching with aquatint, large margins. 180 x 250mm, 7 x 9¾".
A Russian woman feeding pigs, sheep and a cow in farmyard, published in Atkinson's 'A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians'. According to the text a Russian farmyard is 'little more than a receptacle and shelter for stock... The Dairy is as yet imperfectly known to them'. Atkinson accompanied his uncle, James Walker. to St Petersburg when Walker was appointed engraver to Catherine the Great. On his return he and his uncle published this work, which contained 100 plates.
Abbey: Travel 223, 'These plates of Atkinson's show the spontaineity and sprit possible when the artist is his own engraver... The colouring is skilfully done'.
[Ref: 25074] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Russia in Europe Part II.
Engraved by J.& C. Walker.
London Published by Baldwin & Cradock 47 Paternoster Row July 1st 1835. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved map with original colour. 345 x 405mm, 13½ x 16". Narrow margins.
Map of Northern Russia, with Archangel and the White Sea, with the Ural Mountains, the border between Europe and Asia, on the right.
[Ref: 13212] £70.00

Russia in Europe Part IV.
Engraved by J.& C. Walker.
London Published by Baldwin & Cradock 47 Paternoster Row July 1st 1834. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved map with original colour. 345 x 405mm, 13½ x 16". Narrow margins.
Map of Russia north of Moscow, with St Petersburg top left.
[Ref: 13213] £70.00

Russie Pétersboug [ms]
Fumagalli dis. e inc. Biasioli A.T.
[Milan: Antonio Fortunato Stella, 1816-27.]
Hand-coloured aquatint with small margins; publisher's blindstamp. Plate 210 x 340mm (8¼ x 13¼"). Proof before title. Slight damage on right.
St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia until 1917. View from St. Peter and St. Paul's Fortress, looking across the river Neva, with the Winter Palace, Admiralty and other buildings on the opposite side of the river. Published in Giulio Ferrario's 'Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts, sciences et usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes d'après les monuments de l'antiquité et accompagné de dessins analogues au sujet par le Docteur Jules Ferrario'.
[Ref: 34531] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Plough.
Drawn & Etched by John Augustus Atkinson.
Published as the Act directs May 10, 1804 by J.A. Atkinson & Ja.s Walker, No 3 Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, and Mess.rs John & Josiah Boydell, Pall Mall & Cheapside, London.
Coloured soft-ground etching with aquatint and large margins. 180 x 250mm, 7 x 9¾".
A Russian horse-drawn plough, published in Atkinson's 'A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians'. According to the text the Russian plough is primitive and its effect 'in ploughing is very superficial... [but] enough, however, to answer all the Russian's purposes'. The author notes the recent introduction of the english plough by the nobility, although the peasants still prefer their own. Atkinson accompanied his uncle, James Walker. to St Petersburg when Walker was appointed engraver to Catherine the Great. On his return he and his uncle published this work, which contained 100 plates.
223 Abbey: Travel, 'These plates of Atkinson's show the spontaineity and sprit possible when the artist is his own engraver... The colouring is skilfully done'.
[Ref: 25076] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Russia in Asia.
Drawn by Wyld. Hewitt sc. Buckingham Place Fitzroy Square.
Published by John Thomson & Co. Edinburgh. [n.d., c. 1815.]
Engraved map with original colour. Creased. Tear at top.
The Russian Empire, from the Caucasus to Kamchatka. The Bering Strait had still not been mapped properly.
[Ref: 18123] £110.00

Russia.
Alf Cooke. Leeds.
[n.d., 1887.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet 250 x 145mm, 9¾ x 9¾".
A dancer in a glamourous version of a Russian ceremonial military uniform, holding the imperial standard. The costume was made for the Army and Navy ballet at London's Alhambra Theatre. Although the theatre 'specialized in beautiful ballets' it was notorious as a meeting place for prostitutes and their clients.
Not in Ogilby.
[Ref: 16941] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Russia in Europe Part V.
Engraved by J.& C. Walker.
London Published by Baldwin & Cradock 47 Paternoster Row Sep.r 1st 1835.
Engraved map with original colour. 405 x 345mm, 16 x 13½". Narrow margins.
Map of Lithuania Belarus & the Ukraine, marking Vilnius, Minsk and Kiev.
[Ref: 13214] £70.00

Russia in Europe Part VI.
Engraved by J.& C. Walker.
London Published by Baldwin & Cradock 47 Paternoster Row Dec.r 1st 1835. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved map with original colour. 405 x 345mm, 16 x 13½". Narrow margins.
Map of Russia south of Moscow, with part of the Ukraine.
[Ref: 13215] £70.00

Russia in Europe Part VII.
Engraved by J.& C. Walker.
London Published by Baldwin & Cradock 47 Paternoster Row May 1st 1845. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved map with original colour. 345 x 405mm, 13½ x 16". Narrow margins.
Map of Russia south east of Moscow, with part of Astrakhan and the borders with Khazakhstan.
[Ref: 13216] £70.00

Russia in Europe Part VIII.
Engraved by J.& C. Walker.
London Published by Baldwin & Cradock 47 Paternoster Row May 1st 1835. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Engraved map with original colour. 345 x 405mm, 13½ x 16". Narrow margins.
Map of Southern Ukraine, with the Crimea. With an inset showing the sheets of the Russia map.
[Ref: 13217] £70.00

Russisch Kayferliche Artillerie une Fuhrwesen.
Nach der Natur gezeichnet u. geatzt von Ludwig Ebner.
Zu finden in der Academischen Kunsthandlung in Augsburg. [n.d. c.1805.]
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching, rare. 172 x 203mm. 6¾ x 8".
A horseback general and two officers stand between two canoons with carriages in the background; Artillery Officers of the Imperial Russian Army. From "Charakteristische Darstellung der vorzüglichsten europäischen Militärs".
[Ref: 21494] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Devonshire's Russian Car.
Orme del. James & Co. Lithography of Ridgefield. Manchester.
Pub. & Sold N.J. Hall Bank. Buxton 1823.
Lithograph, 195 x 270mm (7¾ x 10½"). Trimmed into image, staining on left edge.
A horse-drawn drozhki carriage, driven by a Russian, open to the elements with room for only one passenger, apparently the Duke of Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858).
See REF 9433.
[Ref: 8816] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Devonshire's Russian Drowski.
Orme del.
Pub. & Sold N.J. Hall Bank. Buxton 1825.
Lithograph, printed area 160 x 300mm (6¾ x 12"). Staining on left edge.
A horse-drawn drozhki carriage, driven by a Russian, open to the elements with room for only one passenger, apparently the Duke of Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858).
See REF 8816.
[Ref: 9433] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Duke of Devonshire's Russian Car.
Orme del. [James & Co. Lithography of Ridgefield. Manchester.]
[Pub. & Sold N.J. Hall Bank. Buxton 1823]
Rare lithograph. Sheet: 275 x 210mm, (10¾ x 8¼"). Trimmed into inscription, slight foxing.
A horse-drawn drozhki carriage, driven by a Russian, open to the elements with room for only one passenger, William George Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858).
[Ref: 41528] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Voitures Russes. Russian Carriages.
dessinees par Swebach. drawn by Swebach.
London, published by Ch. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street. Paris Publie par Jeannin, rue du Croissant No.20. New-York published by Bailly Ward & Co [n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, rare, sheet 490 x 320mm. 19¼ x 12½". A full sheet (they were often cut up);
21 vignette sketches of Russian coaches, carriages, and horse- and human-powered sleighs and sledges. They are arranged in three columns. From a folio; numbered '33' upper right.
[Ref: 22449] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[A pair of scenes of Russian carriages after Alexander Orlowsky.]
[Sleigh] Redman Lithog. Maiden Lane, Cov.t Gard.n.
[n.d., 1820-3.]
Pair of lithographs with hand colour, fine condition with superb colour; 440 x 540mm (17¼ x 21¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
A pair of early British lithographs, with two Russian scenes: a four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses, carrying a driver and passenger with a monocle through a town; and a two-horse sleigh with an officer and driver, racing through a village. After Alexander Osipovich Orlovsky (Warsaw 1777 - St. Petersburg 1832), a talented battle scene painter, portrait painter and caricaturist whose range of medium included watercolours, oils, engravings and pastels. He travelled extensively and was a volunteer in the partisan group led by Thadeusz Kosciuszko in the Polish liberation movement and uprising of 1794. He moved to Russia in 1802 where he settled in St. Petersburg and was a court artist for the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, for whom he executed drawings of uniforms and military parades. During his period in St. Petersburg he created numerous genre scenes and also society portraits. Most of his paintings and drawings from this time, however, were scenes of army life and battles, as well as romantic subjects featuring brigands and shipwrecks. David J. Redman was a former employee of Georg Johann Vollweiler, who sold the secret of lithography to Colonel John Brown in 1807. Redman's plan of Bantry Bay of 1808 is the earliest known lithographic map. 'British Map Engravers – A Supplement' gives his address as Maiden Lane from 1820 to 1823.
[Ref: 55771] £1,950.00 view all images for this item

Voitures Russes dessinées par Swebach. Russian Carriages drawn by Swebach. No. 33.
[Drawn by Edouard Swebach.]
London published by Ch. Tilt 86, Fleet Street. Paris Publié par Jeanin, rue to Croissant No 20. Bew-York published by Bailly Ward & Co.
Lithograph. Sheet 415 x 280mm (16¼ x 11"). Slight toning of paper. Small margins.
21 vignettes of Russian coaches, carriages and sleighs.
[Ref: 56959] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Das Wagenrennen vor der Stadt.] [or] [Telega at the entrance of a village]
A. Orlowskj 1824.
Lithograph, sheet 345 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Repaired tears in margins and creases.
A telega race; a type of four-wheel horse-drawn vehicle, whose primary purpose is to carry loads, similar to a wain. Aleksander Orlowski (1777 –1832) was a Polish painter and sketch artist, and a pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.
[Ref: 63055] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

The Russian Colossus after Making the Tour of Italy, France & carrying home a few Presents for the Empress.
IC. Folios of Caricatures sent.
Published July 15 1799 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Very rare etching. 395 x 285mm (15½ x 11¼"). Damaged. Trimmed.
Suvóroff (Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov, 1729-1800; Russian military commander), holding a French army in each crooked elbow, his right foot planted on Paris (left), a fortified town, is about to put his left foot on 'Peters[burg]. His appearance and dress, though caricatured, are less grotesquely untrue to life than in earlier prints. In his cartouche box, inscribed 'Les Directoire', are the five Directors; he removes a long pipe from his mouth to emit a blast of smoke at them, saying, "There now, be quiet will you". They say: "This Monster will be the Destruction of us all". In his right arm is 'Moreau's Army'; in his left, 'Macdonalds Army' (men, horses, flags, cannon, and bayonets). Through his legs is seen 'Turin'. On the extreme left 'Spain', at which he emits a blast from his posteriors. From Petersburg issue the words: 'here he comes - here he comes got them all in his knapsack.'
BM Satires 9408.
[Ref: 52251] £360.00

Russisch Kayferliche Cosacken.
Nach der Natur gezeichnet und gestochen von Ludw. Ebnen.
Zu finden in der Academischen Kunsthandlung in Augsburg. [n.d. c.1805.]
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching. 203 x 152mm. 8 x 6". Creasing.
Soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army. From "Charakteristische Darstellung der vorzüglichsten europäischen Militärs".
[Ref: 21492] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

A Russian Cossack.
[T. Palser.]
[n.d. c.1815.]
Fine hand-colorured etching and engraving, watermark 1815. Plate 350 x 248mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
A Russian Cossack on horseback hodling a spear facing forward; a sword around his waist and a rifle pointing out fro his saddlebag. Three soldiers on horseback, to the left, charge towards other mounted troops to the right.
[Ref: 52340] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

La Danse Russe.
Le Prince 1760.
Hand coloured etching and aquatint, image 300 x 235mm. 11¾ x 9¼".
A Russian man and woman dancing in front of an audience to the accompaniment of musicians with guitar-like instruments. A large tent behind. By Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781), painter and etcher; inventor of aquatint: 1757-62 in Russia.
[Ref: 13303] £390.00

The Whole Russian Empire. The European Part of the Russian Empire With the Several Countries that are the Theatre of the Present War between the Turks and the Russians, from D'Anville's maps. [&] The Asiatic Part of the Russian Empire with the adjacent Coast of North America from D'Anville's Map.
London Printed for R. Sayer Map & Printseller No 53 Fleet Street. Published as the Act directs 2.d March 1772.
Engraved map on two sheets conjoined, as issued, with original hand colour. 18th century watermark, Total 490 1280mm (19¼ x 50½"), with wide margins. Crack on binding fold taped.
A two-sheet map of the Russian Empire, each with its own title, but with a joint title across the two sheets. It shows from Poland (which was partitioned by Russia, Prussian and Austria later in the year) and the Balkans east to Kamchatka and the Kuriles. What the map calls the 'adjacent coast of North America' is an amorphous peninsula stretching under the eastern limit of the Asian coastline. In the Pacific are many large islands, including Schouten's mythical 'Company's Land' and the confused Jesso/Hokkaido.
[Ref: 54166] £480.00 view all images for this item

[Russian Frontispiece in Cyrillic.] [Architectural Drawings of the Ruins of Ancient Bolgar] A. Schmitt
[1827.]
Etching. Plate: 245 x 175mm (9¾ x 7''). Creasing.
On the banks of the Volga River, close to the Tatarstan capital Kazan, there are ruins of the legendary ancient city of Great Bolgar. Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex (ancient Bolghar hill fort) was inscribed to the World Heritage List in 2014.
[Ref: 50521] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[Easter Games.] Suite des Jeux aux Fêtes de Pâques. Le jeu du Ballon Woschtchikis. Jeu des Osselets appellé Backi. Fete Villageoise Prasnik. Le Jeu de l'Anneau Swaika.
A Paris chez Basset. M.d d'Estampes, rue St Jacques au coin de celle Mathurins, No. 64. [n.d., c.1800.]
Hand-coloured engraving. Plate: 300 x 200mm (11¾ x 8"), with good margins.
A series of scenes showing a variety of games played at Easter in Russia during the 18th Century, including a game resembling football and knucklebones.
[Ref: 44698] £520.00

Habit of a Russian Girl in 1764. Fille Russe. 69.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1772.]
Hand coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. Plate 240 x 200mm (9½ x 8"). Large margins.
Portrait of a Russian girl, she is standing in profile to the right holding apples in both hands. Plate 69 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 62884] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Cyrillic title - ''Russian Hunting. Chromolithographs after drawings by Pyotr Solokov. Series 2.
Published by Felten, St Petersburg.] [n.d., 1873.]
Chromolithograph. 490 x 645mm (19¼ x 25½") Some cracking and browning, pencil mss.
The cover of Series 2 (of three) of ''Russian Hunting'', a collection of twelve scenes by Pyotr Petrovich Solokov, published by Franz Felen. The pencil mss. translates the titles of the three plates in this part. Solokov (1821-99), a painter of Saint Petersburg, worked in watercolour, producing portraits and hunting scenes like these, as well as some book illustrations. In 1877 he was a correspondent during the Russo-Turkish War and was wounded at the Siege of Pleven; he was awarded the Cross of St. George for bravery.
[Ref: 51608] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Cyrillic title - ''Russian Hunting. Chromolithographs after drawings by Pyotr Solokov. First Series.
Published by Felten, St Petersburg.] [n.d., 1873.]
Chromolithograph. 490 x 645mm (19¼ x 25½") Damaged and brittle, some browning, pencil mss.
The cover of Series 1 (of three) of ''Russian Hunting'', a collection of twelve scenes by Pyotr Petrovich Solokov, published by Franz Felen. The pencil mss. translates the titles of the three plates in this part. Solokov (1821-99), a painter of Saint Petersburg, worked in watercolour, producing portraits and hunting scenes like these, as well as some book illustrations. In 1877 he was a correspondent during the Russo-Turkish War and was wounded at the Siege of Pleven; he was awarded the Cross of St. George for bravery.
[Ref: 51607] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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