BOGDANOVICH, Evgenii. Strelki Imperatorskoi Familii. [Life Guard Sharp-shooters Regiment of the Imperial Household.] The third edition. St. Petersburg: Golike & Vil'borg, 1906. 8° (248 x 170mm). Llithographed frontispiece, additional title, 8 portraits, one chromolitograph, two plates, illustrations throughout, head- and tailpieces printed in gold. Contemporary binding of felt, cloth with catches, claps, insignia and strips of material after the regimental uniform, white moiré style endpapers, gilt edges ( possibly with a few small, expert repairs). Provenance: Akademiia Ist. Mater. Kul't. (stamps) -- Paul M. Fekula.
BOGDANOVICH, Evgenii. Strelki Imperatorskoi Familii. [Life Guard Sharp-shooters Regiment of the Imperial Household.] The third edition. St. Petersburg: Golike & Vil'borg, 1906. 8° (248 x 170mm). Llithographed frontispiece, additional title, 8 portraits, one chromolitograph, two plates, illustrations throughout, head- and tailpieces printed in gold. Contemporary binding of felt, cloth with catches, claps, insignia and strips of material after the regimental uniform, white moiré style endpapers, gilt edges ( possibly with a few small, expert repairs). Provenance: Akademiia Ist. Mater. Kul't. (stamps) -- Paul M. Fekula.

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BOGDANOVICH, Evgenii. Strelki Imperatorskoi Familii. [Life Guard Sharp-shooters Regiment of the Imperial Household.] The third edition. St. Petersburg: Golike & Vil'borg, 1906. 8° (248 x 170mm). Llithographed frontispiece, additional title, 8 portraits, one chromolitograph, two plates, illustrations throughout, head- and tailpieces printed in gold. Contemporary binding of felt, cloth with catches, claps, insignia and strips of material after the regimental uniform, white moiré style endpapers, gilt edges ( possibly with a few small, expert repairs). Provenance: Akademiia Ist. Mater. Kul't. (stamps) -- Paul M. Fekula.

IN A DELUXE PRESENTATION BINDING. THE FEKULA COPY, probably first in one of the imperial collections. The binding is fashioned after the uniform of the regiment, and centred with a metal cross with the cipher of Nicholas I. Fekula 2293 (this copy); Lyons 230.

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