$2,500
[Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna, wife of Emperor Alexander I]. Volumes I-III, complete. St. Petersburg: Ekspeditsya Zagotovleniya Gosudarstvennikh Bumag, 1908-1909. Each 280 x 195mm. All three volumes in half-leather bindings with marbled boards, each with decorated gilt leather spines and two boxes with gilt text, and Each with top pages gilded. Volume I: XIII, 486 pp. With 29 plates with color and black and white tipped-on illustrations, mostly portraits of Russian Nobility; Volume II: IX, 762pp. With 33 plates with color and black and white tipped on illustrations, and one facsimile manuscript; Volume III: IX, 778pp. A three-volume set of the correspondence between Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich and Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna. Text in French and Russian. Sold in as-is condition. Corners bumped, some parts of spines missing, one binding separating from pages. However, inner pages and plates are in good condition.
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2014-10-25
