NOBEL OIL COMPANY -- Ansichten einiger Anlagen der Naphta-Productions Gesellschaft Gebrüder Nobel. [Views of Some Plants in the Brothers Nobel Oil Company.] St. Petersburg and n.p. [but Germany]: H. Rentz & Co., and W. Köhne & Co., c. 1883. 20 photographic reproductions (most c. 100 x 155mm) with captions in Russian in the negative, mounted on card (110 x 164mm) within printed frames and with printed captions in German on the verso. (Mounts lightly browned, and occasionally lightly stained near the edges.) Loose, as issued, in the original red cloth portfolio, upper side lettered in gilt (lacking ties, dampstained, corners rubbed, lining worn).
NOBEL OIL COMPANY -- Ansichten einiger Anlagen der Naphta-Productions Gesellschaft Gebrüder Nobel. [Views of Some Plants in the Brothers Nobel Oil Company.] St. Petersburg and n.p. [but Germany]: H. Rentz & Co., and W. Köhne & Co., c. 1883. 20 photographic reproductions (most c. 100 x 155mm) with captions in Russian in the negative, mounted on card (110 x 164mm) within printed frames and with printed captions in German on the verso. (Mounts lightly browned, and occasionally lightly stained near the edges.) Loose, as issued, in the original red cloth portfolio, upper side lettered in gilt (lacking ties, dampstained, corners rubbed, lining worn).

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NOBEL OIL COMPANY -- Ansichten einiger Anlagen der Naphta-Productions Gesellschaft Gebrüder Nobel. [Views of Some Plants in the Brothers Nobel Oil Company.] St. Petersburg and n.p. [but Germany]: H. Rentz & Co., and W. Köhne & Co., c. 1883. 20 photographic reproductions (most c. 100 x 155mm) with captions in Russian in the negative, mounted on card (110 x 164mm) within printed frames and with printed captions in German on the verso. (Mounts lightly browned, and occasionally lightly stained near the edges.) Loose, as issued, in the original red cloth portfolio, upper side lettered in gilt (lacking ties, dampstained, corners rubbed, lining worn).

A collection of photographic views relating to Branobel's concessions on the Caspian, near Baku and Balakhany. Rentz & Co. was one of St. Petersburg's leading studios; Alexandra Feodorovna later commissioned Rentz and other photographers to record the 1904 imperial ball. RARE: WorldCat locates only one copy, at Karlsruhe.