ST. PETERSBURG: A. IL'IN, 1883
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Alexander III's Coronation Album
St. Petersburg: A. Il'in, 1883
Entitled 'Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de Leurs Majestés Impériales l'Empereur Alexandre II et l'Impératrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883', with chromolithographed title, frontispice, 2 portraits and 22 colour plates after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makarov, Bogdanov, and others, 67 pages of text with illustrations, some colour. (Some slight spotting). Original morocco-backed cloth, uppercover lavishly gilt (slightly rubbed, some wear to spine), gilt edges. Folio, 26½ x 21in. (67.2 x 53.5cm.)
St. Petersburg: A. Il'in, 1883
Entitled 'Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de Leurs Majestés Impériales l'Empereur Alexandre II et l'Impératrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883', with chromolithographed title, frontispice, 2 portraits and 22 colour plates after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makarov, Bogdanov, and others, 67 pages of text with illustrations, some colour. (Some slight spotting). Original morocco-backed cloth, uppercover lavishly gilt (slightly rubbed, some wear to spine), gilt edges. Folio, 26½ x 21in. (67.2 x 53.5cm.)