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RUSSIAN NUMISMATIC REFERENCES AND SALE CATALOGS Russian Numismatic References and Sale Catalogs. Georgii Mikhailovich, Grand Duke. Вел. Кн. Георгiй Михаилович. Монеты. Царствованiя Императора Петра I. Toм II. Coins of Peter I, 1682-1710. St. Petersburg, 1914. Half-title in red and black, magnificently engraved portrait of Petrus Alexewitz, fine frontispiece title, dedication leaf, ii, (2), 153, (1) pages, 55 very fine Photohyalotypie plates, depicting coins from 1682 to 1710. Folio: 41 x 31 cm. Lacking printed wrappers , half-title and title worn, soiled and stained, top half of portrait stained, back of final plate soiled, remainder of contents generally fine. (Georgii Mikhailovich, Grand Duke. Вел. Кн. Георгiй Михаилович) . PL. LVI – XCV & (XCVI – CIII) ТАБ. LVI – XCV & А-З. No place or date. 48 very fine Photohyalotypie plates of coins in all. Some plate captions in French, some in Russian. Plates LVI-LXV and subsequent plates in Russian are approximately 42 x 32 cm; plates in French and the final series of eight plates are approximately 35.5 x 27.5 cm. All are loose. The last eight plates are neatly lettered, dated and numbered in pencil. A few plates are a trifle clipped at corners. Recently rebound in three quarter brown morocco and green publishers cloth. Blue title label laid on spine, gilt lettering. Loose plates contained in custom-made clamshell box bound to match first volume. Very fine. Ex 'Important Numismatic Books', G.F. Kolbe an Spink & Son, Ltd., New York, NY, December 9, 1995, Lot 189. Ink stamp of Библиотека ООН Академии Наук СССР on the back of the title and plates in the main volume. No. 39 of only 200 copies, covering the 1682-1710 coinage. Also presented in a series of plates covering 1711-1719 coinage. Planned by the Grand Duke Volume III, was to have covered 1711-1719. Some 50 plates, not all fully-finished, exist, and the Hermitage holds soime manuscript pages of the draft text. It is believed only 10 sets of plates А-З surfaced during WWII and only few of those are in private hands.

Estimate: $20000