Lot Essay
Volume I of the French heavy paper edition (possibly all published).
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ST. PETERSBURG: EXPDITION POUR LA CONFECTION DES PAPIERS DE L'ETAT, 1899
Details
Nicholas II's Coronation Album
St. Petersburg: Expdition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1899
Entitled 'Les Solennits du Saint Couronnement: Ouvrage publi avec l'autorisation de Sa Majest l'Empereur par le Ministre de la Maison Impriale sous la direction de M. V.S. Krivenko ... Traduction franaise de M.G. Korsow', 60 plates, many coloured, after Benois, Lebedev, Makovskii, Repin, Riabushkin, Serov and Vasnetsov, numerous illustrations in the text. (A few leaves loose, a few tears). Original morocco elaborately decorated after a design by Samokish, brass roundel with profile portraits of Tsar and Tsarina on upper cover (rather rubbed and slightly discoloured), gilt edges. 2 parts in one volume, folio, 17.5/8 x 13in. (44.8 x 35cm.)
St. Petersburg: Expdition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1899
Entitled 'Les Solennits du Saint Couronnement: Ouvrage publi avec l'autorisation de Sa Majest l'Empereur par le Ministre de la Maison Impriale sous la direction de M. V.S. Krivenko ... Traduction franaise de M.G. Korsow', 60 plates, many coloured, after Benois, Lebedev, Makovskii, Repin, Riabushkin, Serov and Vasnetsov, numerous illustrations in the text. (A few leaves loose, a few tears). Original morocco elaborately decorated after a design by Samokish, brass roundel with profile portraits of Tsar and Tsarina on upper cover (rather rubbed and slightly discoloured), gilt edges. 2 parts in one volume, folio, 17.5/8 x 13in. (44.8 x 35cm.)
Provenance
Coburg Library (bookplate)