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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Russian) |
| Author: |
Shilder, Nikolai Karlovich |
| Title: |
[Emperor Alexander I: His Life and Reign] |
| Place: |
St. Petersburg |
| Publisher: |
A.S. Suvorin |
| Date: |
1904-1905 |
| Item # : |
214840 |
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| Sale Number |
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437 |
| Lot Number |
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139 |
| Sale Name |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books |
| Sale Date |
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09/16/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 4200 |
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| Description: |
| 4 volumes. Text in Russian. vi, 436, [1]; [4], 408, [1]; [4], 569, [1]; [4], 651, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated with 450 engravings, color lithographs, halftones, facsimiles (many folding), etc. 28.3x20 cm. (11¼x7¾"), original half leather and cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt; bound at the Steam Bindery by N.V. Gaevskiy, St. Petersburg. |
| Sumptuous biography of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, who reigned from 1801 to 1825, during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars and growing social tension. Notable for the numerous illustrations, including fine chromolithographed plates. N.K. Shilder, author of the work, became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and director of the Imperial Public Library. The present work is quite scarce, being a pre-Revolutionary production subject to the vagaries of two World Wars and the Bolshevik conflicts. |
| Condition: |
| A little shelf wear, Vol. I spine head chipped, still in near fine to fine condition, rare thus. |
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