ST. ISAAC CATHEDRAL -- Vysochaishe utverzhdennyi tseremonial osviashcheniia S. Peterburgskago Kafedral'nago Isaakievskago Sobora. [The consecration ceremony of the St. Isaac Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.] [With:] -- Vysochaishe utverzhdennye tseremonial poezda ikh Imperatorskikh Velichestv i Ikh Imperatorskikh Vysochestv iz zimniago dvortsa, na osviashchenie Sanktpeterburgskago Kafedral'nago Isaakievskago Sobora. St. Petersburg: 30 May 1858.
ST. ISAAC CATHEDRAL -- Vysochaishe utverzhdennyi tseremonial osviashcheniia S. Peterburgskago Kafedral'nago Isaakievskago Sobora. [The consecration ceremony of the St. Isaac Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.] [With:] -- Vysochaishe utverzhdennye tseremonial poezda ikh Imperatorskikh Velichestv i Ikh Imperatorskikh Vysochestv iz zimniago dvortsa, na osviashchenie Sanktpeterburgskago Kafedral'nago Isaakievskago Sobora. St. Petersburg: 30 May 1858.

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ST. ISAAC CATHEDRAL -- Vysochaishe utverzhdennyi tseremonial osviashcheniia S. Peterburgskago Kafedral'nago Isaakievskago Sobora. [The consecration ceremony of the St. Isaac Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.] [With:] -- Vysochaishe utverzhdennye tseremonial poezda ikh Imperatorskikh Velichestv i Ikh Imperatorskikh Vysochestv iz zimniago dvortsa, na osviashchenie Sanktpeterburgskago Kafedral'nago Isaakievskago Sobora. St. Petersburg: 30 May 1858.

2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (302 x 200mm). (Some leaves nearly detached, light soiling.) Contemporary green roan, sides bordered in gilt and blind, upper side centred with a gilt tool of the St. Isaac Cathedral, white moiré-style endapers (corners rubbed, front hinge starting, endpapers discoloured). Provenance: New Michael Palace (printed label) -- A. Herenroth.

FIRST EDITION. THE NEW MICHAEL PALACE COPY of the program for the consecration of St. Petersburg's largest Orthodox Cathedral, built over the course of 40 years under the watchful eye of Montferrand. The New Michael Palace, now home for the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, was built in 1825 as a residence for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich (1798-1849). Studemeister 108.

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