![[ARMS AND ARMOUR]. Musée des armes rares, anciennes et orientales, de sa Majeste l'Empereur de toutes les Russies. Carlsruhe, n.d. [circa 1841]. 2 vols., large 2o. 180 engraved plates. Later half morocco, spines gilt-lettered. Note: Vol. I, pl. LIX, contains two views of an ivory-hilted hunting knife of the same design of a German hunting sword with ivory grip in the Russell B. Aitken Private Collection. Vol. II, pl. XCVIII, letter f, is a similar design to a Yataghan and sheath in the Russell B. Aitken Private Collection. Vol. II, pl. CXLIV, nos. 3 and 3a, are of similar design to a Piha-Kaetta and sheath in the Russell B. Aitken Private Collection. (2)](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/NYR/2003_NYR_01319_0801_000(055002).jpg?w=1)
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[ARMS AND ARMOUR]. Musée des armes rares, anciennes et orientales, de sa Majeste l'Empereur de toutes les Russies. Carlsruhe, n.d. [circa 1841]. 2 vols., large 2o. 180 engraved plates. Later half morocco, spines gilt-lettered. Note: Vol. I, pl. LIX, contains two views of an ivory-hilted hunting knife of the same design of a German hunting sword with ivory grip in the Russell B. Aitken Private Collection. Vol. II, pl. XCVIII, letter f, is a similar design to a Yataghan and sheath in the Russell B. Aitken Private Collection. Vol. II, pl. CXLIV, nos. 3 and 3a, are of similar design to a Piha-Kaetta and sheath in the Russell B. Aitken Private Collection. (2)