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Arms of the towns of the Russian Empire — Risunki
gerbam gorodov Rossiiskoi Imperii prinadlezhashchie k I-mu Sobraniiu
Zakonov. [Drawings of the Arms of the Towns of the Russian Empire
appertaining to the 1st Collection of Laws. Lithographed by the
Highest Authority]. [St. Petersburg]: Department of Military
Settlement, 1843. Lithographed title-page, 9 p.p. with. text, 144 plts., lithographed by A. Shurygin, K. Hess and Fr. Wodecki, with the image of
the arms of the towns of Russian Empire, some of them are CONTEMPORARY
COLOURING in bodycolour heightened with gold and silver and gum
Arabic. The manuscript (8 sheets) is applied to this work with the
image of the arms of provinces of Russian Empire and signed by ink: «Drew in Drawing Economic Department of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs». Contemporary half leather gilt-stamped green morocco. The
spine slighty worn and stained. The block of lithographs is oblong,
but it bound vertically, being guided on the 1st Collection of Laws
of Russian Empire. Oblong 4° (31х23,5 cm). Fine copy from the library
of Moscow Merchant Assembly. The first complete publication of the
Russian town heraldry! The Rarity!
1. Cristie’s «Valuable Russian Books and Manuscripts», 30.11. 2006, №
55, $120000(coloured copy belonged Maximilien de Beauharnais, 3 rd
Duke of Leuchtenberg(1817-1852) married Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna,
daughter of Nicholas I).
2. Zaionchkovskii, Moscow, 1978, №67. |
