CHYTIL KAREL (1857-1934), presentation copy Byzantské emaily Závišova kříže ve Vyšším Brodě. [Byzantine Enamels of the Záviš Cross in Vyšší Brod] Praha: Seminarium Kondakovianum, 1930. Limited to 200 copies. Presentation copy of Alexander Ivanovich Anisimov.

— 37, [2] pp.: ill., 10 plates; 25 × 20 cm. In Czech. Limited to 200 copies. Presentation copy of Alexander Ivanovich Anisimov. Ten miniature colour illustrations of medallions mounted on separate leaves; full-page photographs of the Cross in the text. Publisher’s illustrated portfolio, stamped in gilt and colour. Very good condition. Minor wear, soiling and foxing to the portfolio. Engraved bookplate of Martin Winkler (by A. Kravchenko) on the inside of the upper flap. A bibliophile edition containing descriptions and illustrations of ten enamels forming the decoration of the Záviš Cross, preserved in the monastery at Vyšší Brod. Seminarium Kondakovianum (Kondakov Seminar; from 1931 the Kondakov Archaeological Institute) was an association of émigré scholars, known for their work in Byzantine and Russian history, art and archaeology. Founded in Prague in 1925 and named after the Russian historian N.P. Kondakov (1844–1925). Provenance: Alexander Ivanovich Anisimov (1877–1937), scholar of Byzantine and Old Russian painting, active in monument preservation, restoration and museum work. He directed restoration projects in Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Rostov, Uglich and Vladimir, including icons and wall paintings associated with Theophanes the Greek, and the icons Trinity and the Zvenigorod Deisis by Andrei Rublev. From 1920 to 1929 he worked at the State Historical Museum as head of the department of religious antiquities; he also taught at the Shanyavsky People’s University, later at Moscow University, and served as professor and dean at Yaroslavl University, as well as teaching at VKhUTEMAS. Arrested multiple times (1919, 1921, 1930), he was ultimately sentenced to ten years in the Solovki camp and executed; fully rehabilitated in 1989–1990. Martin Winkler (1893–1982), German cultural and art historian, professor, specialist in Old Russian art, member of the German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe. A personalized copy