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AL'BOM FOTOGRAFICHESKIKH PORTRETOV AVGUSTEISHIKH OSOB I LITS IZVESTNYKH V ROSSII [Album of Photographic Portraits of august Personages and famous People in Russia], St. Petersburg, G. Den'er, 1865
Twelve parts in one volume, 154 albumen prints, c-de-v size, with printed captions (Russian text) on mounts, (lacks no.2 from July), original lithographed wrappers, contemporary half morocco, title and crowned cypher of Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich in gilt on spine (worn), 4to.

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Photographic portraits of Alexander II, the tsareviches Nikolai and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich and other members of the Imperial family, the government, the arts, literature and theatre including Prince A.M. Gorchakov, Prince A.I. Bariatinskii, N.I. Grech, I.K. Aivazovskii, I.S. Turgenev, Countess M.G. Razumovskaia, the ballerinas L.P., V.P. and O.P. Radina, and in the first 10 parts one group shot of the native peoples of the Russian Empire

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