Author: BOURDOUKOFF, N.
Title: N. Bourdoukoff - Céramique de l'Asie Centrale.
Description: Leipzig / St. Petersburg, Karl W. Hiersemann / Manufacture des Papiers de l'État, [1904]. 35.5 x 26.5 cm. xvii [i/ii lacking],[1] + 5 pages with cross sections + 22 coloured plates. Portfolio, wrappers. - Text in French and Russian. - Nikolai Fedorovich Burdukov was the owner of one of the first large-scale specialized collections of ceramics. - He lived openly with his lover, the Russian journalist and novelist, Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (1839-1914) who was also advisor to Tsar Alexander III. [Sue Young Histories / The Russian Out List]. - Lacking page I / II, probably the half-title as the title is present; the portfolio a bit worn/traces of age, else fine

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