Prince Demidoff (30 results)

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages; Description: 120 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Subjects: Demidov, Anatolii Nikdaevich, Principe di San Donato (1813-1870) --Art collections --Exhibitions --Wallace Collection (London, England). 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages; Description: 120 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. Subjects: Demidov, Anatolii Nikdaevich, Principe di San Donato (1813-1870) --Art collections --Exhibitions --Wallace Collection (London, England). 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Modern Facsimile. 1966 modern facsimile reprint of 1900 original, Slightly musty, some splotches on front cover. With 82 illustrations and map. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. limited to 500 copies, leather with gilt titles and decor, octavo in slipcase, color frontispiece, all edges gilt, b/w ill., tight binding, clean throughout, clean board with sharp corners, slipcase is stained on the bottom of one side and has loose threads on one of the edges. FINE in a GOOD slipcase. The Asian Series.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1900 FIRST EDITION. Original pale blue cloth with gilt lettering front cover and spine, original stripe pattern EPs. The book has drop marks (water) on front cover, rubbed corners and edges, fraying spine ends, EP paper front and rear cracked open showing cloth mesh (but binding holding okay), inscription to Frederic Polis dated 25-12-1900 from L. H. P. at Aschabad. (modern-day Ashgabat) penned to short-title page and different name and address dated 1945 penned to top of title page otherwise no writing or marks on any pages, LACKING the original folding map in rear pocket (b/w photocopy of map present) otherwise complete with all pages and photos, no foxing. The book measures 234mm tall x 170mm and has 324 pages + 8 pages of ads, colored frontispiece illustration, 82 b/w photos and sketches, photocopy of original folding map in rear pocket (this folding map is a photocopy, NOT original). PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO DJ AS ISSUED, CLEAN COPY.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Paris, Ernest Bourdin & Cie, 1854. Grand in-8 (27,5x18,5cm), XIV-510pp.-2ff., demi chagrin époque, dos lisse avec auteur et titre, légères rousseurs, manque de papier sur le dernier plat Illustré de 27 gravures dont plusieurs en couleurs et 2 cartes repliées et en couleurs dans une pochette in-fine. Ouvrage scientifique et artistique consacré aux régions méridionales de l'Empire russe, relatant l'expédition menée en 1837 par le prince Anatole de Demidoff, mécène et savant russe établi à Paris. Dirigée sur le terrain par Frédéric Le Play, cette mission associa ingénieurs, naturalistes et artistes, notamment Raffet et Dauzats, pour étudier la géologie, l'industrie, les monuments et les populations de la Crimée, du Caucase et de la steppe du Don. Publiée d'abord en 1840 en grand in-folio, cette édition Bourdin de 1854 en reprend le texte accompagné de nombreuses lithographies réduites d'après les dessins originaux. Anatole de Demidoff (1813-1870), prince de San Donato, était un mécène et voyageur russe établi à Paris. Protecteur des arts et des sciences, il finança plusieurs expéditions savantes et entretint autour de lui un cercle d'artistes et de savants européens, illustrant le cosmopolitisme éclairé de l'aristocratie du XIXᵉ siècle. Brunet II, 583.…

souple. Condition: Assez bon. Carte dépliante rehaussée en couleurs format 73 x 106 cm sous étui cartonné, Ernest Bourdin, Paris, 1855 Cette superbe carte de la Crimée présente également deux petits plans de la bataille de l'Alma (20 septembre 1854) et du "Port de Sevastopol". Ainsi que le précise le texte de l'étui, "cette magnifique carte, la seule complète et sur une aussi grande échelle, est gravée sur acier et coloriée avec le plus grand soin". Il s'agit ici du tirage le plus grand sur papier grand aigle (106 sur 73 cm) ; il existe aussi un tirage plus petit sur papier grand colombier (90 sur 63 centimètres). "Cette carte est pliée dans un étui format du volume de "la Crimée" dont elle est le complément indispensable". La notice fait ici référence à l'édition abrégée au format in-18 du "Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée" du Prince Demidoff, publié par Bourdin en 1855 (Vicaire, III, 169). La carte est en très bon état (très petite fente à un pli en marge), l'étui est très usagé (manque de cartons, reste d'étiquette de cote au verso de l'étui). Langue: Français.…

Condition: Sehr gut. Contemporary cloth binding with gilt title on spine, 324 pages, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 82 illustrations, folding map, nice armorial bookplate of Reginald Hepburn Heath, the map has at some time been misfolded, but this has been neatly rectified, very good condition. From the library of naturalist and hunter Malcolm Lyell (1922-2011), who for several decades was managing director and owner of gunmaker Holland and Holland. Lyell notes on the front free endpaper (in pencil): A tale of incredible massacre of sheep, and in the end he does not list the slaughter. One of the most widely respected sheep hunting books ever by one of the best sheep & mountain game hunters ever - thus the usual description of this book. Demidoff was one of the richest persons of his time and doubled for this expedition with St George Littledale, who made his today largely forgotten, quite incredible Asia journeys together with his wife and dog. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, this dated 1855 hardcover Second Edition is VG. 268pp with Preface (Labelled as Advertisement), all text in French language: 8 Chapters, 3 full-page Colour Plates, Numerous B/W engravings, both full-page and set in text. Clean marbled endpapers, front and back, Light scattered foxing throughout, postage stamp sized residue of label on blank second front endpaper, some wear/rubbing to 1% of board front edges: binding tight and sound and otherwise VG. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. Facsimile of the 1900 original. This edition limited to 275 copies signed by representatives of Rowland Ward's and Trophy Room of which this is copy 130. Blue cloth in slipcase. Folding map in rear pocket. Zebra stripe endpapers. Some of the best writing on Asian ship hunting. Small stain to front cover. Reference: Czech, Asian Big Game Hunting Books, pg 62. …

Leatherbound. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Limited reprint. #228 of 500 copies bound in full blue leather with gilt letter and illustration to covers, gilt page edges, ribbon marker and decorative endpapers is near fine while showing just a touch of wear in near fine slipcase that shows just a touch of wear as well. 316 pages with black & whites. Nice copy of this hunting classic in the John Culler line.…

Leatherbound. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Limited Reprint. Near fine black leather bound hardcover is #228 of limited edition of 500 copies that also features gilt letter and decoration to covers, gilt page edges, ribbon marker and decorative endpapers. 319 pages with black & whites and foldout map. Nice copy of this hunting classic that makes up an installment in The Asian Series from john Culler.…

Leatherbound. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Limited reprint. Limited edition #228 of 500 copies bound in full leather with gilt letter and illustration to covers and gilt page edges, ribbon marker and decorative endpapers is near fine while showing just a touch of wear in near fine cloth slipcase as well. 295 pages with black & white illustrations and two maps present at rear pocket. Nice looking copy of this work from the author of Hunting Trips in the Caucasus and After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia that makes up an installment in the John Culler Asian Series.…

. In-12 br. E.P Demidoff est le petit-fils du Prince Elim Mestcherski et de P.N. Demidoff, fils de Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff et de la princesse Marie Elimovna Mechtcherskaïa, ancienne demoiselle d'honneur de l'impératrice Marie. Demidoff fut le dernier ambassadeur de l'Empire Russe en Grèce. Il y est resté en exil comme ambassadeur de Russie blanche. E.O. tirée à 150 exemplaire sur Hollande, non mis dans le commerce.…

Condition: Good. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without highlights or underlining. Without dust wrapper, mild tanning to pages. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. With 82 illustrations and a color folding map, featuring author's 1899 trips to Central Asia to hunt Ovis Ammon, the largest of all wild sheep and other exotic mountain game, 324pp with index, hardcover, bicolr cloth binding, imported from Britain.

FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDING (SPINE NEEDS GLUE) MAP MISSING, probable ex-library- no markings as such but evidence/staining from previous labels, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus/printed eps, xvi + 319pp, illus, G- (boards in fully adhesive plastic covering, moderate scuffing to spine & board extrems, light tanning to spine, moderate soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, occasional pencil annotation, moderate staining from prev. library labels to front board & front pastedown, heavy clear tape reinforcement to front & rear gutters, heavy cracking to other gutters throughout, gutter at pg80/81 fully cracked exposing binding & completely separated from spine- glue needed, single terminal page prev. detached but reaffixed at gutter with clear tape).…

Condition: Near Fine. 1984 (nd, circa) London, 324pp, many illus, color fold-out rear pocket map, 1 of 25 numbered copies bound in 3/4 leather, slipcased. Demidoff was a wealthy Russian prince who hunted extensively. In this book he teams up with George Littledale to pursue the sheep of Mongolia. Excellent account of their travels and, of course, of sheep hunting. Much on sheep, but also ibex, maral and gazelle. Good reading if you want to go to Mongolia. This leatherbound reprint is a quality production from a fine English bindery. Fine copy in near fine slipcase. …

1904 London, 1st edn, 302pp, 113 text illus, 5 photogravures, and 1 fold-out colored text map and 1 fold-out colored map in rear pocket. The third and last book by this famous Asian sheep and ibex hunter. In 1900 Prince Demidoff, his wife Sophie and a companion of earlier trips St George Littledale, traveled by rail from St. Petersburg to Moscow and then to Vladivostok, this part of the journey alone took 27 days! From there they took a boat and via the Sea of Okhotsk reached Petropavlovsk. They then hunted along the Pacific side of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Demidoff had brought with him his valet Cristo and a photographer named Tallent plus 4 tons of supplies! Several journeys inland were made and numerous sheep in bear were shot after many frustrations. The land was so remote and devoid of humans that Demidoff remarked that the shooting of sheep was more collecting than sport as they seemed devoid of fear of people. Another indication of the remoteness of the land was the discovery by Prince Demidoff of a giant lake not found on any known map; he named it in honor of his wife. All indications are that Demidoff and Littledale were the first sport hunters ever to collect these sheep. Interestingly enough the party's return journey was impossible overland as the Chinese Boxer Rebellion had broken out then they were forced to take a boat back to Europe. The book deals exclusively with bears and snow sheep on the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. Now that snow sheep hunting (Ovis nivicola) is open to foreigners in Russia this book is even more scarce than before. Scarce and sought-after item. A very good plus copy; no shelf wear, cloth and gilt bright, spine very, inner hinges good, no pen markings, no book plate, a very few light pencil markings on prelim, frontis page slightly foxed. Map in rear pocket browned somewhat, otherwise complete, properly folded and without a single tear. A copy that is one out of dozens condition wise. …

1898 London, 1st edn, 319pp, many illus, fold-out map. One of the most sought-after books written on the tur, especially the Western, or Kuban tur. As in his other books, the Prince hunted for long periods of time and bagged many fine heads. In fact the trophies that he took then are still today among the biggest heads that ever came from the Caucasus. Also includes hunting for Caucasus wisent, stag, and bezoar ibex. The book consists of three separate narrative sections on trips taken by Prince Demidoff and Dr. Levik, his hunting companion. The first trip is to the Kuban district, the second trip is along the Persian-Russian frontier and the last trip is to the Kuban district once more, but further East than the first trip. Undoubtedly the scarcest of all three Demidoff's work. Very good copy, front inner hinge good, rear inner hinge weak, sharp corners, bright gilt, period book plate. Spine discolored as is the case with virtually all copies. Much better than average.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. Small quarto, 324pp., illustrated, plus 8pp of advertisements. Folding map in pocket at rear, a trifle toned on the verso, but the map itself bright and clean, with no tears. A good copy in the publisher's pale blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Spine cocked and dust-soiled, with wear to the spine ends. Some foxing to title page and frontispiece. Corners gently worn. Inner hinges tender, but holding (though the rear has a very thin partial crack). Handsome armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. A scarce and extremely well-illustrated memoir of sheep hunting in the far reaches of Mongolia and the Russian borderlands. The author was a wealthy Russian prince, whose means allowed him to go on these kinds of adventures. Printed on heavy coated paper, thus prone to wear. This is a decent, complete, internally clean copy, with no sophistications.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Demidoff to former owner "with kindest regards from the author" the half title. xvi, 319, [1] +4 four ad pp; fold-out map in pouch on rear paste down. Very Good, cloth lightly worn and soiled with sunned and slightly scratched spine, former owner's bookplate on front paste down, hinges starting. Map verso a little toned but basically fine. Housed in custom slipcase. A Russian nobleman's photo-illustrated account of three hunting trips in 1895 and 1896 to the Caucasus mountains of Georgia and Azerbaijan, a minor classic of hunting literature that is quite scarce signed. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Author of Hunting Trips to Caucasus, and After Wild Sheep in the Alatai & Mongolia, with 113 illustartions and 5 photo gravures plus 2 folding maps in the rear pocket. Limited Deluxe edition of 500 copies (this one is #103). Beautifully bound in hunter green leather with raised bands and silk ribbon, title and head of a wild sheep in gold on the front, all edges gilt, 295 pages, Fine in a fine slipcase.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Asian Series, Deluxe Edition Limited to 500 numbered copies, with 95 illustrations and map. Mostly wild sheep hunting, profusely illustrated with photographs and a large folding map, all edges gilt, silk ribbon, bound in leather, prev. owner's blind stamp, nearly fine condition, the book comes with a beautiful clothbound slipcase.…

267 pp. y vuelta, viñetas grabadas en el texto, 12 láminas (3 de ellas coloreadas). 4º menor. Tela editorial estampada. Cortes dorados. Muy buen estado. Ex libris heráldico.

Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [15], vi, xvi, 295, [3]; facsimile edition of the original edition of 1904, with reproductions of 113 illustrations, 5 photogravures, and 2 maps in rear cover pocket; original full green leather stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g.; fine copy in glassine jacket and publisher's slipcase. Issued in the publisher's Asian Series. With a new introduction by Robert J. Churchill. …

1984 (nd, circa) London, 324pp, many illus, color fold-out rear pocket map. Demidoff was a wealthy Russian prince who hunted extensively. In this book he teams up with George Littledale to pursue the sheep of Mongolia. Excellent account of their travels and, of course, of sheep hunting. Much on sheep, but also ibex, maral and gazelle. Good reading if you want to go to Mongolia. Fine copy in very good plus slipcase.…

1p., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged and worn. Addressed to 'My dearest Bellows'. He has received the pamphlet at the Hotel Bristol, and 'earnestly' believes that 'it will make the right impression upon the powerful of the world'. His party starts the following week for Russia, '& I will take in hands [sic] our plans of delivery as soon as I get on the spot'. He ends with a pious sentiment. Bellows paid two visits to Russia, and counted Tolstoy among his friends. Demidoff was an anglophile, and published in London in 1898 a book titled 'Hunting Trips in the Caucasus', dedicated (by 'Demidoff') to 'English sportsmen'.…

Paris, Charles Pillet & Francis Petit (experts), 1870, format in-8°, (26,5 cm), 207 pp + 42 original engravings (hors-texte). Bound in contemporary green half morocco, raised gilt spine. Boards covered with marbled paper, marbled end-papers. Upper inner joint weak, some minor sparse stains, still a fine copy. Complete catalogue of the most important sale held of the Demidoff collection. 556 Lots were sold. (In Paris 1863 and Florence 1880 other sales were held). This catalogue contains the major part of Demidoff's collection of paintings. It is richly illustrated with so-called ''interpretation engravings''. Images made of the paintings , engraved by famous master engravers such as Braquemond, Rajon, Courtry, Flameng. The advance of photographic reproduction techniques would soon supersede this very expensive way of art illustration. En français: Important catalogue de la vente Demidoff, illustré avec 42 belles gravures d'interpretation. Reliure d'époque en demi maroquin vert, Plats couverts de papier marbré. Premier mors à l'intérieur un peu faible, Qq légères tâches ou rousseurs éparses; sinon bel exemplaire.…