Impératrice de Russie MARIA FEODOROVNA, Gabriel SÉNAC DE MEILHAN
Mémoires d'Anne de Gonzagues, Princesse Palatine
S. n.|A Londreset [London] • se trouve à Paris 1786|12 x 19.60 cm|relié
First edition.
Binding with central arms of Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, née Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1759-1828), wife of Paul I, and mother of Alexander I and Nicholas I. Double-headed eagle with Russian and Württemberg state symbols, set within the ribbon of the Order of Saint Catherine.
Contemporary Russian binding in full red morocco, central arms of the Empress. Small black mark on the bottom of the first board, slightly bumped corner. Crisp paper with a few spotting and browning to the endpapers' margins.
Provenance: Pavlovsk Palace library with its storage label on the first pastedown
Binding with central arms of Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, née Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1759-1828), wife of Paul I, and mother of Alexander I and Nicholas I. Double-headed eagle with Russian and Württemberg state symbols, set within the ribbon of the Order of Saint Catherine.
Contemporary Russian binding in full red morocco, central arms of the Empress. Small black mark on the bottom of the first board, slightly bumped corner. Crisp paper with a few spotting and browning to the endpapers' margins.
Provenance: Pavlovsk Palace library with its storage label on the first pastedown
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