NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Les Solennités du Saint Couronnement . [Koronatsionnyi sbornik, posviashchennyi koronatsii E. I. V. G. Imperatora Nikolaia II]. St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1899. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (438 x 317mm). Illustrated throughout with over 170 full-page illustrations, some of these chromolithographs printed in various colours and gold, some double-page or folding, the photographic illustrations complete with the printed tissue guards. (Dampstain in the margin of some leaves, without leaf 35.1 but this evidently never bound-in, some wear in gathering 40, one tissue guard with some loss.) Original tan binding, the spine and front cover blocked in various colours and gilt, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (front cover lacking the metal portrait medallion, some spotting and staining, light wear to front endpaper). Provenance : a European Royal collection.
NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Les Solennités du Saint Couronnement . [Koronatsionnyi sbornik, posviashchennyi koronatsii E. I. V. G. Imperatora Nikolaia II]. St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1899. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (438 x 317mm). Illustrated throughout with over 170 full-page illustrations, some of these chromolithographs printed in various colours and gold, some double-page or folding, the photographic illustrations complete with the printed tissue guards. (Dampstain in the margin of some leaves, without leaf 35.1 but this evidently never bound-in, some wear in gathering 40, one tissue guard with some loss.) Original tan binding, the spine and front cover blocked in various colours and gilt, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (front cover lacking the metal portrait medallion, some spotting and staining, light wear to front endpaper). Provenance : a European Royal collection. FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL FULL-LEATHER BINDING. The French issue of Nicholas II's coronation album, a lavish publication illustrated throughout with views of ceremonies, many after Samokish, reproductions of the menus and programmes of festivities, including the folding plate after Vasnetsov, and photographic portraits of noble families and dignitaries in attendance.
NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Les Solennités du Saint Couronnement . [Koronatsionnyi sbornik, posviashchennyi koronatsii E. I. V. G. Imperatora Nikolaia II]. St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1899. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (438 x 317mm). Illustrated throughout with over 170 full-page illustrations, some of these chromolithographs printed in various colours and gold, some double-page or folding, the photographic illustrations complete with the printed tissue guards. (Dampstain in the margin of some leaves, without leaf 35.1 but this evidently never bound-in, some wear in gathering 40, one tissue guard with some loss.) Original tan binding, the spine and front cover blocked in various colours and gilt, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (front cover lacking the metal portrait medallion, some spotting and staining, light wear to front endpaper). Provenance : a European Royal collection.
NICHOLAS II -- KRIVENKO, V.S. (ed.). Les Solennités du Saint Couronnement . [Koronatsionnyi sbornik, posviashchennyi koronatsii E. I. V. G. Imperatora Nikolaia II]. St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1899. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4° (438 x 317mm). Illustrated throughout with over 170 full-page illustrations, some of these chromolithographs printed in various colours and gold, some double-page or folding, the photographic illustrations complete with the printed tissue guards. (Dampstain in the margin of some leaves, without leaf 35.1 but this evidently never bound-in, some wear in gathering 40, one tissue guard with some loss.) Original tan binding, the spine and front cover blocked in various colours and gilt, edges gilt, endpapers printed in silver and gilt (front cover lacking the metal portrait medallion, some spotting and staining, light wear to front endpaper). Provenance : a European Royal collection. FIRST EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL FULL-LEATHER BINDING. The French issue of Nicholas II's coronation album, a lavish publication illustrated throughout with views of ceremonies, many after Samokish, reproductions of the menus and programmes of festivities, including the folding plate after Vasnetsov, and photographic portraits of noble families and dignitaries in attendance.
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