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RATCH, Vasilii, Captain. Svedeniia ob artillerii gatchinskikh voisk. [A Report on the Artillery of the Gatchina Troops.] St. Petersburg: Military Press, 1851.
8° (230 x 145mm). (Bound without the blanks, occasional light scattered spotting.) Contemporary green morocco, the spine and upper cover titled in gilt, the covers with a wide blind-tooled foliate border within a gilt-rule, gilt edges, white moiré-style endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich (1832-1909; bookplate and shelf-label of the New Michael Palace).
FIRST EDITION. FROM THE COLLECTION OF GRAND DUKE MIKHAIL NIKOLAEVICH at the New Michael Palace. RARE: not in WorldCat; not in Zaionchkovskii; we could trace examples only at the Russian National Library, and at the Library of Congress. Michael, son of Nicholas I and brother of Alexander II, was Governor General of the Caucasus for 20 years. Gatchina Palace, a favourite residence of the Imperial family, was substantially enlarged by Nicholas I who added the Arsenal Halls, these used as a summer residence.
8° (230 x 145mm). (Bound without the blanks, occasional light scattered spotting.) Contemporary green morocco, the spine and upper cover titled in gilt, the covers with a wide blind-tooled foliate border within a gilt-rule, gilt edges, white moiré-style endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich (1832-1909; bookplate and shelf-label of the New Michael Palace).
FIRST EDITION. FROM THE COLLECTION OF GRAND DUKE MIKHAIL NIKOLAEVICH at the New Michael Palace. RARE: not in WorldCat; not in Zaionchkovskii; we could trace examples only at the Russian National Library, and at the Library of Congress. Michael, son of Nicholas I and brother of Alexander II, was Governor General of the Caucasus for 20 years. Gatchina Palace, a favourite residence of the Imperial family, was substantially enlarged by Nicholas I who added the Arsenal Halls, these used as a summer residence.
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