BIE´s Music from the Volga river area

RUSSIA. BIE, OSCAR. Musik auf der Wolga 1914. Leipzig (Verlag von Meissner & Buch) 1920.

4:o (about 308x250 mm.). (8), 9-126, (2 blank) pp. Title partly handcoloured, some initials in red, 17 lithographed plates Robert Sterl.
Uncut and unopened in original wrappers, slightly worn, spine with small damage at foot. Endpapers partly discoloured by wrappers. Edition printed in 200 numbered copies, this is number 188. (Vierter Drucke der Wahlverwandten gegründet und geleitet von Erich Gruner).

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.

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