[Rarebooks] FS: 5 on Kazak, Russian, and Soviet Jewelry

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Komleva, Galina; Tocchinskaya, Elga, intro. (Museum of the 
Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR). JEWELLERY. MUSEUM OF THE 
ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE USSR. Translated from the Russian 
by Sergei Volynets. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988. 167 pp. 
153 illus. on 144 plates (mainly color, a few b/w, some two page). 
Sq. 8vo. Illustrated paper-covered boards (hardback).  First edition. 
Photographs by Alexander Gronsky and Nikolai Kutovoi. Covers a very 
broad range of jewelry by type and region of origin including 
Russian, Ukrainian, Baltic, Daghestan, Georgian, Caucasian, Kazakh, 
Turkoman, Uzbeki, and many others. A fine copy in a very good rubbed 
cardboard shipping case.   
http://www.kaaterskillbooks.com/img/26573.jpg   [26573]  $95.00

Martynova, M.V. (Marina Vasilievna). PRECIOUS STONE IN RUSSIAN 
JEWELRY ART IN XIITH-XVIIITH CENTURIES. Photos by E. I. Steinert. 
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973. 45 pp. + [105 pp.]. Illus. with 52 full page 
color plates & 8 b/w photos. Folio (35 cm). Full tan cloth stamped in 
gilt (hardback).  First edition. Russian and English text. Title in 
Russian: Dragotsennyi kamen v russkom iuvelirnom iskusstve 
dvenadtsatogo-vosemnadtsatogo vekov. Small bookseller book plate from 
"The Henry Polissack Collection." A bright near fine copy, boards 
with a hint of sunning, in a  good worn and chipped dust jacket.   
http://www.kaaterskillbooks.com/img/26570.jpg [26570] $125.00

Medvedeva, G. (Galina); Platonova, N. G.; Postnikova-Loseva, M. M., 
et al. RUSSIAN JEWELLERY 16TH-20TH CENTURIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF 
THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM, MOSCOW. Moscow: Sovetsky Khudozhnik, 1987. 343 
pp. Illus. with 86 color portraits (most full page) and 438 color 
photos. Folio (34 cm). Full black cloth with gilt titles (hardback). 
First edition. In Russian and English. Includes bibliography and 
indexes. Russian title: Russkie iuvelirnye ukrasheniia 16-20 vekov iz 
sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo ordena Lenina Istoricheskogo muzeia. A 
beautiful work which displays these objects both in close-up and in 
context (worn by the figures in the portraits). Small bookseller book 
plate from "The Henry Polissack Collection." A fine copy in a very 
good+ dust jacket with some tiny chips at the head of the spine in 
the near fine original cardboard slipcase.   
http://www.kaaterskillbooks.com/img/26571.jpg  [26571] $175.00

Svirin, A. N. (Aleksei Nikolaevich). EARLY RUSSIAN JEWELRY WORK. 
IUVELIRNOE ISKUSSTVO DREVNEI RUSI XI-XVII VEKOV. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 
1972. 184 pp. Illus. with 78 full page color & b/w plates. 4to. Full 
red cloth stamped in gilt (hardback).  First edition. Text in 
Russian; title page and captions in English, French, German, and 
Russian. A fine bright copy in a near fine lightly rubbed cardboard 
shipping case.   http://www.kaaterskillbooks.com/img/26572.jpg 
[26572] $40.00

Tokhtabayeva, Sh. Zh. (or Toqtabaeva or Tokhtabaeva). KAZAKH 
JEWELLERY. [QAZAQTYNG ZERGERLIK ASHEKEILER /  KAZAKHSKIE IUVELIRNYE 
UKRASHENIIA]. Almaty: "Oner", (1985). Color frontis, 153 pp. Illus. 
with 236 color photos. Folio (33 cm). Full gray cloth stamped in 
silver and blind (hardback).  First edition. Kazakh text with 
parallel Russian and English translations. Small bookseller book 
plate from "The Henry Polissack Collection." Approximately 200 
stunning items from the A. Kasteyev State Arts Museum of the Kazakh 
and the Central State Museum of the Republic. A fine copy in a worn 
pictorial slipcase.   http://www.kaaterskillbooks.com/img/26569.jpg 
[26569] $300.00


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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
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