THE DIAGHILEV LIFAR LIBRARY=SOTHEBY PARKE IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Diaghilev-Lifar Library. !!!!!!~~~~~Sotheby's Auction Catalogue~~~~~!!!!!!   Friday 28th November to Monday 1st December .                                                             Decorated and Embossed green Boards with black and gilt decoration. No faults. Full-colour front illustration. 217 pages, 32 black and white reproductions throughout. Auction catalogue (November 28 - December ) of Russian rare books, pamphlets, drafts and old musical scores of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century originally collected by Sergei Diaghilev (), including listings for the first Russian book printed in Moscow (), and first editions of Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevky and Pushkin. Introduction by Serge Lifar () is in French, the catalogue listings are in English. Eight hundred and twenty-six lots up for bid over the four-day sale. A solid, clean and crisp copy without inscriptions or markings, gilt to original green boards remains bright. Complete with the original corrigenda slip and an unused bidding slip laid in. In a good if somewhat edge-nicked & creased glassine wrapper.     Dimensions: 255 mm x 190mm 217 Pages Sold as seen in the images.