Recueil de chants religieux russes : a cappella (32) de Bakhmetiev...[et al] et Ce?lestin Bourdeau. Re?pertoire de l'E?glise Russe de Paris (in French and Russian)

Petrograd/ New York/ Paris: W. Bessel, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, undated (c1890); 9" x 11 3/4"; pp. [6], 3-155, [1]; custom bound in 3/4 linen and marbled boards; small label with 'N 17' to upper margin of front cover; few spots of foxing and soiling only to margins of first several pages, else remarkably clean and well-preserved; paste-on frontis of the Madonna to front cover verso; edges and corners of covers show rubbing; small note in ink to upper corner of list of contents; very good. Subtitled: "Chants liturgiques du Rite Orthodoxe, d'apre`s le texte en vieux Slavon et conforme?ment aux traditions de l'E?glise Russe, arrange?s, transcrits en caracte?res Latins, afin d' obtenir, par des Chanteurs francais ou autres, le meme re?sultat, les memes effets que si ces morceaux e?taient exe?cute?s par des Russes. Arrangement et re?duction pour Orgue, Harmonium ou Piano en permettra l; exe?cution a de?faut de chanteurs." Words in Church Slavonic and romanized; also printed as text in French on caption at beginning of each work. A beautiful compilation of compositions by great names such as Bakhmetiev and Lvov, including 'So Sviatymi Upokoi/ Bortniansky,' 'Khristos Voskrese/ Bakhmetiev,' etc.