Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 29

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) ARNOLD, VLADIMIR. Unpeger. Legenda polyaarnykh stran [Unpeger, A Legend of the Polar Regions]. Illustrated with color lithographs after color photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorski. 4to, original decorated wrappers, spine partially split, spot on front wrapper. [St. Petersburg]: Obshchestvennaiya? Polza, [1910]
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A legend about the creation of the seasons through the perception of birds and various other fauna. The book was printed by S. M. Prokudin-Gorski, a pioneer in the history of early twentieth century color photography and famous for his studies of Russian peasant life and his color portrait of Leo Tolstoy.