Important Russian Art

1 December 2021

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Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander II, French Edition

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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.

Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander II, French Edition
Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander II, French Edition

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