[TSARSKOE SELO]. [ARNAULT, A.V.]. Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoléon... Paris, 1827. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red straight- grained morocco, gilt border surrounding a large central blind tooled romantic plaque, spines elaborately gilt, g.e., slight fading to spines -- MICHAUD, J. Histoire des Progrés et de la Chúte de l'Empire de Mysore... Paris, 1801-09. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 engraved folding maps. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt -- MONTBEL, M. Le Duc de Reichstadt... Paris, 1832. 8vo, full straight-grained morocco elaborately gilt, g.e., by THOUVENIN, spine and upper margin faded; silk doublures and linings. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Montbel on front flyleaf: "A Sa Majeste l'Empereur de toutes les Russies Hommage respectueux de l'auteur. Comte de Montbel" -- DRÄXLER-MANFRED, C., editor. Rheinisches Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1848. Frankfurt, [1848]. 8vo, contemporary blue velvet tooled in blind and gilt; quarter morocco folding case -- DUNCAN, ARCHIBALD. Opisanie primiechatel'nykh korablekrushenii... St. Petersburg, 1822. 4 volumes, red straight-grained morocco, gilt border and spines, with green morocco lettering and numbering pieces, spines slightly faded, light rubbing to joints -- PETIKSUS, A.G. Olimp. Mifologiia Grekov in Rimlian... Moscow, 1913. 8vo, original pictorial cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, incribed by the Empress in Russian on half title: "To Dear Marie from Papa and Mama." (13)

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[TSARSKOE SELO]. [ARNAULT, A.V.]. Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoléon... Paris, 1827. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red straight- grained morocco, gilt border surrounding a large central blind tooled romantic plaque, spines elaborately gilt, g.e., slight fading to spines -- MICHAUD, J. Histoire des Progrés et de la Chúte de l'Empire de Mysore... Paris, 1801-09. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 engraved folding maps. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt -- MONTBEL, M. Le Duc de Reichstadt... Paris, 1832. 8vo, full straight-grained morocco elaborately gilt, g.e., by THOUVENIN, spine and upper margin faded; silk doublures and linings. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Montbel on front flyleaf: "A Sa Majeste l'Empereur de toutes les Russies Hommage respectueux de l'auteur. Comte de Montbel" -- DRÄXLER-MANFRED, C., editor. Rheinisches Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1848. Frankfurt, [1848]. 8vo, contemporary blue velvet tooled in blind and gilt; quarter morocco folding case -- DUNCAN, ARCHIBALD. Opisanie primiechatel'nykh korablekrushenii... St. Petersburg, 1822. 4 volumes, red straight-grained morocco, gilt border and spines, with green morocco lettering and numbering pieces, spines slightly faded, light rubbing to joints -- PETIKSUS, A.G. Olimp. Mifologiia Grekov in Rimlian... Moscow, 1913. 8vo, original pictorial cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, incribed by the Empress in Russian on half title: "To Dear Marie from Papa and Mama." (13)
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All FROM THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE TSARSKOE SELO, 11 with ink stamp on half titles, the Petiksus with the manuscript label of the classroom of the younger princesses in the music rooms of the Aleksandrov Palace, number 503 and the Rheinische Taschenbuch with bookplate; Calvin Bullock, bookplates.

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