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A gorgeous and colourful surrealist design of delicate butterflies fluttering against a rugged Alpine backdrop, one of six designs commissioned from Dali by SNCF, French national railways, to promote travel into the Alpine region.

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First edition in French of Müller’s epistolary description of St Petersburg and Russia (first German edition 1813), this copy presented by the author to the Baron de Friddani. Müller, a doctor in law and philosophy from the University of Jena, travelled to Russia immediately prior to the French invasion of 1812. His Tableau describes St Petersburg’s squares, buildings, gardens, palaces, religious establishments, climate, and social life, as well as the manufacture of glass and porcelain ware. Subsequent letters cover Russian culture, education, science and arts, the military and police, theatre, national characteristics, legal and political administration, pearls and jewellery, festivals, men, women and mothers, and the palaces of Gatchina and Pavlovsk, in addition to a trip to Estonia.

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Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book.

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