KROTKOV, A., Major-General. Morskoi Kadetskii Korpus. [The Corps of Sea Cadets.] St. Petersburg: Eksp. Zagat. Gos. Bumag, 1901. 8° (244 x 170mm). Portrait frontispiece of Nicholas II, and illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers bound-in contemporary Russian half sheep (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of this rare jubilee publication issued to celebrate 200 years of the Corps of Sea Cadets, originally founded in Moscow as the Navigation School. Prepared under the patronage of Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovich.
KROTKOV, A., Major-General. Morskoi Kadetskii Korpus. [The Corps of Sea Cadets.] St. Petersburg: Eksp. Zagat. Gos. Bumag, 1901. 8° (244 x 170mm). Portrait frontispiece of Nicholas II, and illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers bound-in contemporary Russian half sheep (extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of this rare jubilee publication issued to celebrate 200 years of the Corps of Sea Cadets, originally founded in Moscow as the Navigation School. Prepared under the patronage of Grand Duke Aleksei Aleksandrovich.