Picturesque United States of America 1811, 1812, 1813 Paul Svinin Memoir 1930

Description: Picturesque United States of America 1811, 1812, 1813 Paul Svinin Memoir 1930 POB#42864 TITLE: Picturesque United States of America, 1811, 1812, 1813 : being a memoir on Paul Svinin, Russian diplomatic officer, artist, and author, containing copious excerpts from his account of his travels in America, with fifty-two reproductions of water colors in his own sketch-book AUTHOR: Pavel Petrovich Svinʹin; Avrahm Yarmolinsky; introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. PUBLISHER: New York: William Edwin Rudge DATE: 1930 EDITION: First English Translated Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. DESCRIPTION: xviii, 46, [4] pages : facsimiles, music, 52 plates incl. color frontispiece; 33 cm "Sojourn in the United States" 1-45, Watercolor sketches 1-51 CONDITION NOTES: FINE/VERY GOOD Minus Book is fine with a period owner's inscription and some light toning to pastedowns, but otherwise pristine. DJ has neat and small, but aging tape repairs that detract, edge wear and spine difficult to read. Lack of major tears or repairs, and complete without obtrusive wrinkles or stains, or clipping, thus VG-. BINDING: Full cloth with dust jacket..Howes S-1159. Howes identifies four editions of this popular American travelogue in Russian (1815, 1818), Dutch (1818), and German (1816). .In 1930, a first English edition appeared, this one on offer, published in an edition of 1000 copies. Revived and translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, head of the Slavonic Department of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 1955. A Memoir of Svin'n by Yarmolinsky precedes the sketch book. Introduction by R. T. H. Halsey who managed the project and other aspects of New York art and culture. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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