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GEORGII MIKHAILOVICH REPRINT ON HIS COLLECTION

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GEORGII MIKHAILOVICH REPRINT ON HIS COLLECTION
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Georgii Mikhailovich, Grand Duke. ОПИСАНIЕ И ИЗОБРАЖЕНIЕ НѢКОТОРЫХЪ РѢДКИХЪ МОНЕТЪ МОЕГО СОБРАНIЯ. High-quality reprint of the St. Petersburg, 1886 edition. 4to, original printed card covers. (8), 37, (1) pages; title printed in red and black; 7 very fine reproductions of the original superb plates depicting 44 coins. Fine. A high-quality facsimile reproduction by V. Arefiev of this rare and classic work, of which only 100 copies were originally printed. The author's first numismatic publication, written when he was but twenty-three years of age. In it he first mentions his grand design to publish a corpus of Russian coins from the time of Peter the Great. The Arefiev reprint is well-executed, on very good paper and with remarkably fine reproductions of the plates. Gromachevskii 92и. From the library of Quentin Archer.