Klubbat för:

15000 SEK

Estimate

10 000-12 000 SEK

Description

(CHAUDOIR, BARON STANISLAS DE). (Text in Russian:) "Kitaiskiya, man´chzhuskiya, mongol´skiya, iliskyia, koreskiya, yaponskiya, an´an´skiya i neizvyestnyya monety, medali, assignacii, myenyal´nye bilety, zolotye i serebryanye slitki" (in English: Chinese, Manchu, Mongol, Ilian, Korean, Japanese, Annamese and
unknown coins, medals, paper-money, exchange notes, gold and silver bars). No place or year (St. Petersburg 1842?).

Folio (about 395255 mm.). Title-leaf + 61 lithographed plates (with captions in French).
Contemporary green half morocco gilt, somewhat worn, spine lettered in gilt as title. Old library stamp on title.

Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1759.
This is the atlas to the catalogue of the collection of Baron Stanislas de Chaudoir, one of the greatest coin collectors of the early 19th century.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).

Auktionsnummer:

6149

Date:

2017-11-21