PHOTOGRAPHY -- NOSTITS, Grigorii Ivanovich, Count (1862-1926). Svetopisa Grafa Nostitsa. 1896g. Prodazha v pol'zu Pannkovskago priiuta u Dniepra Ekaterinoslavskoi gubernii. [Photographs by Count Nostits.] Vienna: Blechinger, 1896. Oblong 2° (308 x 442mm). Index leaf in Russian and French. 16 heliogravures on china by Blechinger most after Nostits, with tissue guards. (Two plates with spotting mostly in the mounts, title with price neatly cancelled in red pencil, faint dampstain in the bottom margin.) Original brown cloth, upper side stamped in gilt and blind with the Russian title, gilt edges, decorative endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, light soiling on the sides).

PHOTOGRAPHY -- NOSTITS, Grigorii Ivanovich, Count (1862-1926). Svetopisa Grafa Nostitsa. 1896g. Prodazha v pol'zu Pannkovskago priiuta u Dniepra Ekaterinoslavskoi gubernii. [Photographs by Count Nostits.] Vienna: Blechinger, 1896. Oblong 2° (308 x 442mm). Index leaf in Russian and French. 16 heliogravures on china by Blechinger most after Nostits, with tissue guards. (Two plates with spotting mostly in the mounts, title with price neatly cancelled in red pencil, faint dampstain in the bottom margin.) Original brown cloth, upper side stamped in gilt and blind with the Russian title, gilt edges, decorative endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, light soiling on the sides).

FIRST EDITION. Various scenes, showing Alexander Alexandrovich as Emperor and Tsarevich, primarily at Livadia and Moscow, a number of views of the Kremlin, St. Basil's, and others including Yalta, and the Cruiser 'Pamiat Merkuria' docked at Sevastopol. RARE: apparently not in Copac; WorldCat lists just 4 copies, all in the USA.