Jul 09, 2020 - Sale 2540

Sale 2540 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY -- RUSSIAN.) Uchebniy Atlas von Sidova. Double-page letterpress title, dedication, and introduction, 16 pages, and 46 double-page or folding color-lithographed maps and charts, many with additional hand-coloring in outline. 8vo, 9 1/2x6 1/2 inches, publisher's gilt and blind stamped green pebbled cloth unprofessionally rebacked with red library cloth, Perthes advertisement as rear pastedown; inscription to the verso of dedication leaf washed out and leaving a faint tide mark, many maps separated from binding at the guards but otherwise each with no major individual flaws; ticket of A. Wasserman's International Book Store, 45 Clinton Street, New York pasted to inside front cover. Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1868

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Scarce mid-nineteenth century juvenile atlas of the world entirely in Cyrillic script.