Inscribed copy of A travers le Turkestan Russe.
A travers Le Turkestan Russe by H. Krafft. With the inscription on the half title page:
A monsieur A. Grandidier
Membre de l’Institute
Président de la Société de Géographie
Respectueux hommage
Hugues Krafft
Janvier 1902
This copy bound in ¾ morocco over marbled boards, the spine divided by five raised bands into six compartments, titles in gilt in the 2nd compartment, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Collation: two trailing blanks, (1), half title, frontis, title page, dedication page, vii, 218, map, 219-228, table de matières, colofon, two final blanks.
Complete with 70 photogravures outside the text, all covered with captioned tissue guards.
This book is a work of art in itself, with the 70 photogravures printed on heavy high-quality vellum-paper, creamy white in colour. The paper is watermarked “Marais 1901”, while there are the additional watermarks “H. Krafft” (in the form of his signature), “Au Turkestan Russe” and “Hachette”. These photogravures are protected by tissue-guards with the captions printed on them in green.
The text and the heliogravures are printed on lighter, high quality paper manufactured in 1901 by Marais as well, with very wide margins.
The intriguing, fascinating and beautiful photographs appear on almost every page.
The colophon states:
Le texte de cet ouvrage a été imprimé
par M. Ch. Hérissey, à Evreux.
Les planches hors texte héliogravure
sortent des ateliers de M. Dujardin, Paris.
Le tirage des planches hors texte a été
exécuté par M. Wittmann, Paris.
Les gravures dans le texte ont été tirées
en phototypie par Mm. Berthaud, Paris.
