Exceptionally Rare and Important Antiquarian Russian Book
a presentation copy specially bound for Czar Alexander II
Calculation of the Surface of the Russian Empire
by I.Strelnitsky
Saint Petersburg, 1874, printed at the Academy of Sciences. 9 3/4 x 12 4/8 in. (24,5 x 31,5 cm), 248 pages and two folding maps.
Condition: rubbed corners at the highest points, few small scuffs, 1/2 in. wide brownish discoloration along the rims of the doublures.
Completely intact original gilding.
Full brown morocco leather binding, elaborately embossed, engine-turned and tooled in gilt, with the Grand Coat-of-Arms of His Imperial Majesty.
Books with Grand Imperial Arms are very rare. Another example with a similar armorial, presented to Nicholas II, is published in Book in The Romanov Family by V. Durov, page 23.
The ermine mantle is embroidered with Imperial eagles and surmounted with a large Imperial crown.
Cyrillic inscription on the ribbon reads - GOD WITH US
The shield with double-headed eagle is surmounted with an ancient helmet of Saint Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky; Saint Michael with a sword and Saint Gabriel the Archangel with a cross are at the sides of the shield.
The double-headed eagle is surrounded with chain of the St. Andrew Order.
All edges are gilded.
White moire silk doublure signed by C.Eckhardt.
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