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Plan [i opisanie] zaniatii voisk pri gorode Kalishie v 1835om godu. [Plan and Description of the Manoeuvres at Kalitz in 1835.] [St Petersburg:] the text by Pliushar and the atlas by A. and F. Davignon of Paris, 1837.
A lavish publication bound in a superb green morocco binding, probably for Nicholas I, recording joint military exercises held by the Russian and Prussian armies. Attended by Nicholas I, these military manoeuvres were designed to mark the 1813 alliance between the two nations, and the 20-year peace that followed Napoleon's subsequent defeat. One of the plates shows the monument presented by Nicholas to Friedrich Wilhelm III on the occasion.
2 volumes, octavo (257 x 170mm) for the text, and folio (645 x 480mm) for the atlas. Lithographic title and captions in Russian and French, atlas with eleven plates, most finely hand-coloured, two of these plates with overlays, text volume with seven folding tables (one table torn with small loss, light soiling and light spotting). Contemporary green full morocco, for the atlas, and similar but contrasting green half morocco, for the text, atlas sides richly gilt with a wide border, the upper side titled in gilt and with the double-headed eagle of the Russian Empire, cream moire silk doublures, the text volume with plain endpapers (atlas with expert repairs at spine ends, text rubbed at the extremities). Provenance: Nicholas I of Russia (binding) — unidentified bookseller (small stamps on the rear pastedown of the text volume) — Bernard Shapero, London (pencilled stock code).
A lavish publication bound in a superb green morocco binding, probably for Nicholas I, recording joint military exercises held by the Russian and Prussian armies. Attended by Nicholas I, these military manoeuvres were designed to mark the 1813 alliance between the two nations, and the 20-year peace that followed Napoleon's subsequent defeat. One of the plates shows the monument presented by Nicholas to Friedrich Wilhelm III on the occasion.
2 volumes, octavo (257 x 170mm) for the text, and folio (645 x 480mm) for the atlas. Lithographic title and captions in Russian and French, atlas with eleven plates, most finely hand-coloured, two of these plates with overlays, text volume with seven folding tables (one table torn with small loss, light soiling and light spotting). Contemporary green full morocco, for the atlas, and similar but contrasting green half morocco, for the text, atlas sides richly gilt with a wide border, the upper side titled in gilt and with the double-headed eagle of the Russian Empire, cream moire silk doublures, the text volume with plain endpapers (atlas with expert repairs at spine ends, text rubbed at the extremities). Provenance: Nicholas I of Russia (binding) — unidentified bookseller (small stamps on the rear pastedown of the text volume) — Bernard Shapero, London (pencilled stock code).
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