FABLES -- DOBUZHINSKII, Mstislav Valerianovich (1875-1957; illustrator) and ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (1805-1875). Svinopas. [The Swineherd.] St. Petersburg and Berlin: Grzhebin, 1922. Small 2° (300 x 235mm). Copies are known in variant bindings; this one is as illustrated in the Rats catalogue: in blue boards with the title in silver. MoMA, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 376; Rats Collection 57a & pls131-132. [WITH:] -- KRYLOV, Ivan (1769-1844). A group of 7 editions of fables by Krylov, illustrated by various artists, in original wrappers, including: RABICHEV, I. Pustynnik i medved. Moscow: Vkhutemas, 1922; TSITSKOVSKII, N. Dem'ianova ukha, Moscow: Vkhutemas, 1922 (repairs); ORLOVSKII, A. Chetyre Basni. St. Petersburg: 1907. [AND:] PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). A group of 4 editions of fables by Pushkin, illustrated by various artists (some worn and rebound). (12) View on Christie's.com
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NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Koronatsionnyi sbornik s soizvoleniia Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva Gosudariia Imperatora. Ch. II tol'ko. [Coronation Album of His Imperial Highness the Sovereign Emperor. Volume 2 only.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of Government Papers, 1899. 2° (440 x 320mm). Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs and photographic reproductions, tissue guards, those for the photographic illustrations with printed captions. (Dampstain in the margins of the first few gatherings, occasional soiling, tears in a few tissue guards, a few leaves loose.) Original green leather spine and green pictorial cloth sides, the covers and spine blocked in various colours and gilt, metal medallion mounted on the front board, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (soiled, corners rubbed, front free endpaper adhering to the pastedown at one corner and with short tears). Provenance: H.R.H. Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia (sold, Christie's, 27 June 2007, lot 17). FIRST EDITION. THE RARE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE ISSUE. Volume 2, from the collection of Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia, with the folding menu after Vasnetsov's original design. A lavish publication, illustrated throughout with reproductions of the menus and programs of festivities, and photographic portraits of noble families and dignitaries in attendance. View on Christie's.com
OVCHINNIKOV of Moscow -- A presentation album with a large silver and cloisonné enamel design, marked Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1887. Oblong 2° (310 x 405mm). 18 blank card mounts with pocket windows within gilt printed frames. Full blue velvet, upper cover with a silver and cloisonné enamel frame and silver corner pieces, centred with a large champ-levé enamel silver 'S.M.' cypher flanked with the arms of Rostov and Taganrog, the whole within a large silver garland of berried laurel tied with a cartouche ribbon, the lower cover with bosses, wide enamelled silver clasp, white silk endpapers, the front free endpaper with a presentation printed in gilt, gilt edges (one enamelled silver badge lacking from the upper cover, the velvet worn at the spine and extremities). Provenance: Adol'f L'vovich Chamanskii (printed presentation). A handsome binding with enamelled silver work by Ovchinnikov, presented to Ado'lf L'vovich Chamanskii to commemorate five years in the Azov-Don Commecial Bank between 1883 and 1887. By the end of the century the Azov-Don was the largest provincial bank, and one of the five largest banks in the Russian Empire by 1914. View on Christie's.com
A British prisoner of war crafted needle box, the top painted with French and British flags, a battleship and the name `Groningen, 1915`, a wooden wall crest with mounted maritime copper panel allegedly made with the copper from Nelson`s flagships and to commemorate the British Sailors Society, a Cheshire regimental pin badge and a silver Welsh regiment badge
A RHEINISH SALT-GLAZED 'TIGERWARE' JUG WITH SILVER MOUNTS LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY Of globular form with short cylindrical neck and loop handle, covered in a lustrous mottled brown glaze, the silver collar engraved with various birds including a dove, eagle and peacock amongst flowering branches, with the initials 'LF' over 'SF', the top part of the handle fitted with a thumb-rest engraved with a stylised leaf 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high View on Christie's.com
A GEORGE II SILVER COFFEE POT MARK OF AUGUSTIN COURTAULD, LONDON, 1739 Plain tapering form on spreading foot, bell-shaped finial and scalloped, leaf-capped spout, base inscribed with scratch-weight 21=16 8¼ in. high (21 cm.) 22 oz. (682 gm.) View on Christie's.com
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER SAUCEBOATS MARK OF ELIZABETH GODFREY, LONDON, 1758 With leaf-capped scroll handles, shell feet and gadroon borders, respectively engraved under bases with scratch-weights, 17=3 and 17=5, one engraved with indistinct crest and coronet 8 5/8 in. long (22 cm.) 30 oz. (930 gm.) (2) View on Christie's.com
A GEORGE III SILVER SAUCEBOAT, MARK OF MARY CORRY, LONDON, 1768 Leaf-capped scroll handle, shell & hoof feet, crested; a George III wine funnel, maker's mark overstruck by another, London, 1792, with reeded rim; a George II salver with shell & scroll border, on hoof feet, by James Morrison, London, 1750, 6½ in. diameter (16.5 cm.); and a George I sugar bowl of hemispherical form (lacks cover), with moulded rim, by William Gamble, London, 1717 25 oz. (775 gm.) (4) View on Christie's.com
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