The Alexandre Sementchenkoff collection of Russian books, prints and works of art: including an important military collection (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Christie's, London, 22 October 1987)
London, Christie's, 1987
(25.5 cm), 93 (7) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Lots numbered 501-732. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The collector was a Cossack who fled to France and spent the rest of his life collecting books and works of art. Among the illustrated books is a copy of Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev’s engravings of Saint Petersburg (lot 640, £9500). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1987
- Military art & science - Auction sale catalogues
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Artists/Illustrators
- Makhaev, Mikhail Ivanovich, 1718-1770
- Owners
- Sementchenkoff, Alexandre
- Auction date
- 19871022
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