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ELIZABETH, Empress of Russia (1742-1762)-- Obstoiatel'noe opisanie torzhestvennykh poriadkov blagopoluchnago vshestviia v tsarstvuiushchii grad Moskvu i sviashchenneishago koronovaniia ... Imperatritsy Elizavety Petrovny [Detailed Description of the solemn Order of the Entry into the capital City of Moscow and Solemn Coronation of ... the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna Autocrat of All Russias]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences Press, 1744.
2° (438 x 275mm.). Engraved title, aquatint portrait of the Empress by J. Stenglin after Louis Caravaque (trimmed to plate mark with small tears and laid down), engraved head- and tailpiece by Ivan Sokolov, engraved initial, and 49 engraved plates by Grigorii Kachalov and Ivan Sokolov, 12 on 3 sheets, plates 2, 15, 37 and 40 numbered twice, plate 31 four times, 16 folding, 8 on heavy paper. (Plate 15 of the herald in facsimile, plate 45 of the fireworks a reprint, some plates torn and repaired, some torn into illustration with slight loss and remargined, some paper flaws.) Contemporary mottled calf, the boards with gilt roll-tool border of trefoils and lotus blossoms with cornerpieces of the Empress' cypher, the upper cover with gilt centrepiece of the Empress' cypher in ribbon-tied garlands, the lower cover with the Imperial double-headed eagle, the spine with gilt coronation regalia in scroll compartments, later morocco lettering piece (slightly worn, recased with marbled endpapers), gilt edges.
The official illustrated record of the Coronation of the Tsaritsa Elizabeth on 25th April 1742. This copy has plates 1-4 in the second state with the engraver's name, and plate 5 in first state with the engraver's name but without that of the artist J.E. Grimmel. Despite the date on the title work continued on the book until 1746 when editions in Russian, German, French and Latin were published simultaneously. This had been carried out under the supervision of N.Iu. Trubetskoi with the help of J. Stenglin, I. Taubert, I.Ia. Shumakher and Grimmel. The first Russian edition was printed in an edition of 600 copies, but because of "certain defects" a further 50 copies were printed. In September 1745 Shumakher proposed to Trubetskoi to print a further 900 copies. According to Rovinskii this is the finest example of Russian engraving in Elizabeth's reign, and some Russian bibliographers refer to it as one of the finest in the 18th and 19th centuries. Svodnyi katalog 4789; Sopikov/Rogozhin 7539; Bitovt 1001; Rovinskii Portraits IV-31; Engravings II-949-952; Obol'ianinov 1846; Fekula 2111.
2° (438 x 275mm.). Engraved title, aquatint portrait of the Empress by J. Stenglin after Louis Caravaque (trimmed to plate mark with small tears and laid down), engraved head- and tailpiece by Ivan Sokolov, engraved initial, and 49 engraved plates by Grigorii Kachalov and Ivan Sokolov, 12 on 3 sheets, plates 2, 15, 37 and 40 numbered twice, plate 31 four times, 16 folding, 8 on heavy paper. (Plate 15 of the herald in facsimile, plate 45 of the fireworks a reprint, some plates torn and repaired, some torn into illustration with slight loss and remargined, some paper flaws.) Contemporary mottled calf, the boards with gilt roll-tool border of trefoils and lotus blossoms with cornerpieces of the Empress' cypher, the upper cover with gilt centrepiece of the Empress' cypher in ribbon-tied garlands, the lower cover with the Imperial double-headed eagle, the spine with gilt coronation regalia in scroll compartments, later morocco lettering piece (slightly worn, recased with marbled endpapers), gilt edges.
The official illustrated record of the Coronation of the Tsaritsa Elizabeth on 25th April 1742. This copy has plates 1-4 in the second state with the engraver's name, and plate 5 in first state with the engraver's name but without that of the artist J.E. Grimmel. Despite the date on the title work continued on the book until 1746 when editions in Russian, German, French and Latin were published simultaneously. This had been carried out under the supervision of N.Iu. Trubetskoi with the help of J. Stenglin, I. Taubert, I.Ia. Shumakher and Grimmel. The first Russian edition was printed in an edition of 600 copies, but because of "certain defects" a further 50 copies were printed. In September 1745 Shumakher proposed to Trubetskoi to print a further 900 copies. According to Rovinskii this is the finest example of Russian engraving in Elizabeth's reign, and some Russian bibliographers refer to it as one of the finest in the 18th and 19th centuries. Svodnyi katalog 4789; Sopikov/Rogozhin 7539; Bitovt 1001; Rovinskii Portraits IV-31; Engravings II-949-952; Obol'ianinov 1846; Fekula 2111.