ROSTOVTSEV, M.I. (1870–1952) Sredinnaya Aziya, Rossiya, Kitay i zverinyy stil' [Central Asia, Russia, China, and the Animal Style]. Prague: Seminarium Kondakovianum, 1929.

[2], 48 pp., XI plates, [4] pp.; 28.5 × 22 cm. — (Ekyiөka; 1). Limited to 500 copies. With a preface by A. Kalitinsky, director of the Kondakov Seminar in Prague. Text in Russian and French. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Good condition. Minor tears and small losses at the spine and corners of the wrappers, foxing. Engraved bookplate of Martin Winkler (by A. Kravchenko) on the inside rear wrapper. Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtsev (1870–1952) was a distinguished Russian archaeologist and historian of antiquity, widely recognised abroad after his emigration to the United States. In exile he lived for a time in Prague and later in Paris, where he was a member of the Russian Academic Group, and in the United States he served as a professor at Yale University. Provenance: 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.