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44 - PERSONAL LIBRARY OF EMPEROR NICOLAS II OF RUSSIA.
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Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
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PERSONAL LIBRARY OF EMPEROR NICOLAS II OF RUSSIA. Description of the Coronation of Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor of all the Russias Alexander III and the Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1883, Edition for the Preparation of State Documents, St Petersburg, 1883. Rare Russian-language version, format 68 x 53 cm, sixty-five pp. of text, twenty-seven chromolithographic plates, including the title, frontispiece and two portraits, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoï, Vereshchagine, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigoriev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish. Decorative lettering and polychrome illustrations in the text. Text printed in black, blue and red. Original binding in blue percaline. With a bookplate on the back cover in the name of Philip M. Chancellor, and on the flyleaf a blue bookplate with interlaced figures of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, as well as location numbers within the library. (Insulation, rubbing, scratches and tears to the binding, lacks and tears at the bottom of the spine, tears at the bottom of some pages (from page 1 to 29) and in the centre of some pages (pp. 24; 25-26; 62), wear to some chromolithographs). Provenance: Library of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia; then the Philip M. Chancellor collection (1909-?); then the Eugene Semionovitch (Solonovitch) Mollo collection (1904-1985); then by descent to his son John Mollo (1931-2017); then acquired from the latter by Count Leonardo Vitetti (1895-1973); then by family descent; then acquired from the family by the current owner circa 2020.
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About the sale EASTERN EUROPEAN ART - Atelier Léon LEVKOVITCH (1936-2025)
Auction location
Auction time 06/16/2026 at 2:00 PM
Pictures credits:
MAGNIN WEDRY/THIERRY JACOB
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