MEMORIAL BOOK FOR 1880.
Lot 252
1 5002 000
SPb.: in the Military print., [1879]. - XV, 826, [5] p., 6 p.
with il., 1 p. map; 12, 5x18, 5 cm.
The title page and five illustrations on separate pages are reproduced
in the technique of zincography. Schmutz titles in ornamental
frames. In an individual whole-leather gold-embossed
binding of the era and in a uniform case. Three-sid gold book
edge. Silk book marks. Minor scuffing of the box, pagination
errors, two pages drop out from the block. The owner’s entry
on the flyleaf: «Zur Erinnerung an Ihre Majestät unsere hochseligen
Königin Olga von Württemberg geborene Olga Nikolajewna
Großfürstin von Russland»(«in memory to Her Majesty
our most Reverend Queen Olga of Württemberg, née Olga
Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia»).