(RUSSIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS) Kuznetsov Pavel Turkestan Avtoli

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(RUSSIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.) Kuznetsov, Pavel. Turkestan. Avtolitografii. [Autolithography.] Illustrated with 14 autolithographs. 4to, printed stapled wrappers, short tear along outer margin of front wrapper, few small spots of staining, plates clean; bookplate of "Ya.O.R." on verso of front wrapper. Moscow and Petrograd: GIZ, 1923

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one of 2000 unnumbered copies. This collection reproduces drawings Kuznetsov made when he visited Samarkand in 1909. In the introduction he describes the impact the culture and the spectacular architecture of the region had on his subsequent work.