Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien Conservées au Musée Impérial de l'Ermitage, 3 vol., including atlas, Saint Petersburg, Imprimerie de l'Académie impériale des sciences, 1854.

 

Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien Conservées au Musée Impérial de l'Ermitage, 3 vol., including atlas, text in French and Russian, chromolithographed pictorial title, 53 engraved and 41 chromolithographed plates, 2 folding engraved maps, vignette illustrations, occasional foxing and marginal soiling, contemporary russia-backed boards, spines detached, chipped and worn, spine ends bumped and worn, rubbed, folio, Saint Petersburg, Imprimerie de l'Académie impériale des sciences, 1854.

*** Rare monumental work on the antiquities housed at the Hermitage museum published at Emperor Nicolas I's personal expense. The Emperor took a great deal of interest in Russian archaeological finds following the discovery of a Scythian burial mound near Kerch in 1830 (with many of these discoveries featured here). We can trace only one other copy at auction.