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RUSSIAN COSTUMES. HARDING, E., Costume of the Russian Empire, ... dedicated, by permission, to her Royal Highness the Princess Elisabeth /Costume de l'Empire Russe... London (T. Bensley) 1811. Folio. Coloured engraved title, 72 coloured engraved costume plates (all, minor foxing, partly some faint offsetting of text to plates). Contemporary red morocco binding, somewhat worn, cracks in the joints, gilt and blindtooled borders, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, slightly faded richly gilt spine in six compartments, damaged at head, all edges gilt. Bookplates of Fra.s Warnford and Gösta Nobel. Colas 704. Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.