Lot n° 193
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Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849) The Golden Scarab With drawings - Lot 193
Edgar Allan POE (1809-1849) The Golden Scarab With drawings by D. Mitrokhine (1883-1973). Published by Aquilon, 1922. Unique nominative copy, printed for Renée Ivanovna Nothafft. Format in-12°, 54 pages. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.
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