Sotheby's Monaco SAM

(27 cm), 290 (10) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 546 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Collection of Boris Evgenievich Kochno (1904-1990), author of scenarios for many works in the Diaghilev repertory, consigned by his nephew Vladimir Augenblick. Includes (lot 542) an album of engravings of firework displays in or near St. Petersburg, Moscow and Tsarskoe-Selo, during the reigns of Elizabeth, Peter III, and Catherine II (now Getty Research Institute, DK172.F52 1740). ¶ Annotated copy.