Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 30

Unsold
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(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.