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Description du Sacre et du Couronnement

de leurs Majestés Impériales l'Empereur de Toutes les Russies Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Feodorovna en l'année 1883.

Stock Code 113420

St Petersburg, A. Ilin for the Expedition pour la confection des papiers d'Etat, 1883

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The coronation of Tsar Alexander III. Fine copy of this celebrated coronation album of alexander III.

The beautiful chromo-lithographed plates and illustrations, some heightened with gold, illustrate the ceremonies and events in Moscow and were drawn by the best artists of the time, including Vereshchagin and Samokish. This commemorative monument was printed only for the Imperial family and foreign dignitaries participating in the celebrations on 15 May 1883: it was never offered for public sale and is accordingly rare.

First edition; large folio (66 x 51 cm); 27 chromolithographs, including title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromo-lithograph, text printed in black, blue and red (occasional spotting, some offsetting from plates onto the text, adhesion to text from two plates); o

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Description du Sacre et du Couronnement

[CORONATION ALBUM].

Stock code: 113420

£37,500.00

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