Witte, Vospominanija.

Witte, Vospominanija.

Witte, S. Y. Graf. / Vitte, S.Y. Vospominanija. 1. Zarstvovanie Nikoloja II. 2. Zarstvovanie Nikoloja II. 3. Zarstvovanie Aleksandra II i Aleksandra III. (1849-1894). 3 volumes. complete Berlin, Slovo, 1922 -1923 Gross Oktav. XXXV, 510 / XII, 570 1nn leave., 440 p. Each with a frontispiece and in volume I one facsimiled letter. Original brochures, except volume II which is rebound. Bindings and front fly partly slightly stained. Paper browned.

Rare first and complete Russian edition. Witte (1849-1915) was a Russian minister of Finance and the first prime minister. The English translation was first published in 1921, the French, German and Russian editions followed later.
ref. Sidney Harcave. The memoirs of count Witte.
Rare with a handwritten letter in ink on the flying frontpaper by Aleksander Aleksandrovitch Chostov, Berlin 1940. in volume III, with his name on the cover and title.

Preis: EUR 590,-- 

Witte, Vospominanija.