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The Collection of Niall Smith

Wed, Nov 8, 2023 10:00AM EST
  • Property from the Collection of Niall Smith
Lot 68

Group of Books on Russian Decorative Arts

Estimate: $300 - $500
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Including: The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs 1855–1914 by Chloe Oblensky, Random House, 1979; Russian Houses by E. Gaynor and K. Haavisto, Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1991; Russian Imperial Style by Laura Cerwinske, photography by Anthony Johnson, Prentice Hall Editions, 1990, first edition; An Illustrated History of Furnishing: From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century by Mario Praz, translated by William Weaver, George Braziller, Inc., 1964; Decorative Arts in Europe 1790–1850 by Léon de Groër, translated by Aileen Dawson, Rizzoli International Publications, 1986; Two copies of Russian Furniture: The Golden Age 1780–1840 by Antoine Chenevière, translated by Anna Borisovna Bely and Marilyn Caron-Delion, Vendome Press, 1988; Русское наборное дерево восемнадцатого века - The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia by Y.V. Fomin, photography by S.B. Zimnokha, translated by E.Y. Bessmertnoy and A.I. Ilf, Sovietskaya Rossia Publishers, 1989, first edition, in Russian and English; Русский фарфор - Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection introduced and compiled by L. Nikiforova, photographs by V. Priymenko, Aurora Art Publishers, 1973, first edition, in Russian and English; Innenräume Und Hausrat Der Empire - Und Biedermeierzeit in Öserreich-Ungarn edited by Josef Folnesics, Kunstuerlag Anton Schroll and Co., 1920, first edition, in German; and Памятники Архитектуры Пригородов Ленинграда (Architectural Monuments of the Leningrad Suburbs), The State Inspectorate for the Protection of Monuments of Leningrad, 1983, in Russian (11).

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