RADDE, Dr. Gustav, Die Sammlungen des Kaukasischen Museums ( - Lot 28

RADDE, Dr. Gustav, Die Sammlungen des Kaukasischen Museums (Museum Caucasicum) [The Collections of the Caucasian Museum], Tiflis, 1899-1902 4 volumes (31 x 22 cm), publisher's percaline (corners rubbed, hinges split, spine of volume V faded). First edition, bilingual text in German and Russian. - Band 1, Zoology, 1899: 6 ff, 520-[1] pp, 5 portraits, 2 folding maps, 16 of the 24 plates listed in the title (numbered I to XIX, without plates VI, VII and XIV). - Band II. Botanik, 1901: [7] ff, X-101, [2] ff, 201 pp, 12 portraits on 2 leaves, 19 of the 20 plates listed in the table of plates (without plate 1), 2 of the three maps listed in the title. - Band III, Geology, 1901: [6] ff, 320-[1], 1 portrait, 6 plates and 1 map. - Band V, Archaeology by P.S. UVAROVA, 1902: [10] ff. 231 pp. 3 portraits on 2 leaves, 18 plates and 22 in-text figures. Gustav Radde founded the Caucasus Museum in Tiflis in 1867. He also founded the Tiflis Public Library. Here he describes the collections of the museum he directed. The series was intended to contain 6 volumes, but volume IV on ethnography was never published. Volume VI is missing here. This is a biographical volume in two parts: the first with the author's unfinished autobiography; the second part contains Rooster's biography of Radde.