Important Russian Art
1 December 2021
193.
Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander II, French Edition .
Elephant folio (895 x 670mm).
12,000–18,000 GBP
Lithographed title in French, printed in red and gilt; 18 full-page chromolithographs with printed bilingual captions by various engravers for Lemercier after Zichy, Timm, and others; beginning of each chapter with ornate black-and-white lithographed borders, many lithographed illustrations in the text, 2 of which in color. Oxblood half morocco, edges red.
St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856.
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