The Bosporan Kingdom with its paleographic and funerary monuments, painted vases, plans, maps and views

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Odessa, House of T. Neiman & Co., 1848, Hardcovrr

First edition, Ok

The Bosporan Kingdom with its paleographic and funerary monuments, painted vases, plans, maps and views. 1848

Ashik, A. B. The Bosporan Kingdom with its Paleographic and Funerary Monuments, Painted Vases, Plans, Maps, and Views: [in 3 parts] / Written by Anton Ashik, Director of the Kerch Museum, under the authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of various scholarly societies. – Odessa: Printing House of T. Neiman & Co., 1848–1849.

Part 1 – 1848 – IX, [3], 117, [2] pages, [9] leaves of illustrations, maps

Part 2 – 1848 – [4], 88, [2] pages, [12] leaves of illustrations, drawings

Part 3 – 1849 – XVII, [1], 96, [1] pages, [50] leaves of illustrations, drawings

Size: 29.5 x 24.5 cm

The lithographed images of monuments, vases, excavation artifacts (some rendered in tone lithography), as well as maps and diagrams explaining the excavations, are bound in blocks at the end of each part. Bound together in a half leather binding. "Foxing". Marginal water stains. Back cover missing about 50 percent of marbled paper. Cracks along the spine.

Anton Baltazarovich Ashik (1802–1854) — writer, archaeologist. He conducted excavations of burial mounds in Kerch and was the director of the Kerch Museum of Antiquities, as well as an active member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities. His discoveries of rare antiquities, many of which enriched the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, earned him government awards, and his work "The Bosporan Kingdom…" was awarded the Minor Demidov Prize.

A rare item.

References: Obolyaninov No. 113; N.B. No. 17; Solovyov, Catalog No. 105 "Rare Books," No. 51.