RUSSIA IN EUROPE.

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Ports de Commerce de la Russie Européenne. First and only edition. Officially sanctioned, painstaking survey of the Russian ports of Europe, recorded at the height of their influence. Rare, WorldCat locates a single copy in the University of Genoa.Altogether sixty-five ports are described in great detail, accompanied by photographs, plans and engineer's sections for aspects of their construction. This sort of close scrutiny would very soon be confined behind a wall of Soviet state secrecy. The report covers the White Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea and Sea of Azov; more than a half of the ports analyzed are now located outside of Russia, in the Baltic states, Ukraine and Georgia. This volume was never intended for general distribution, but rather was passed through official channels, a presentation of the ports as a manifestation of the of Russian Empire's influence on European maritime commerce. Finely produced, the presswork was carried out by R. Golicke & A. Willborg, a house known for its involvement in Russian livres d'artiste and other fine editions, the binding was commissioned from the workshop of M. Uleman, small gilt on white ticket to the front pastedown.Two pre-Revolutionary ink stamps to the title page, one repeated on the front cover. Crossed out on the title is of that of the Imperial Library of the Central Statistical Committee of Ministry of Internal Affairs, the repeated stamp is for "Professor Emeritus of the St Petersburg Institute of Communication Routes, Vsev

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