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Objektsbeskrivning RUSSIA - NOBEL OIL INDUSTRY (2). Title in Russian (= In memory of the 50th anniversary of Emmanuil Ludvigovich Nobel, June, 10, 1909). Folio (360x265 mm). Lithograph frontispiece in colour, 4 portraits (of the Nobel family), 39 plates in colour and black and white (all plates with protective paper with decor ). Publisher's original grey paper binding with the printed title on upper cover, cloth spine, slightly rubbed and worn. On inside of upper cover Russian bookplate (Published by employees comittee of the partnership of oil production Nobel Brothers)?. Thirty years of work of oil partnership production of the Nobel Brothers 1879-1909). TOGETHER WITH: Title in Russian (=Oil production partnership Br. Nobel). Description of petrolium products and methods of its use. St. Petersburg, 1910. 8vo (195x120 mm.). 50, (5) pp. With 4 colour plates mounted and illustrations to text. Publisher's original decorated wrappers, slightly worn. Some pages with faint dampstains. 2 volumes. Ludvig Nobel (Stockholm 1831- Cannes 1888), Swedish - Russian engineer, and brother of Alfred and Robert. He and his brother Robert started the famous oilcompany Branobel in 1876 in Baku. He also designed the world's first oil tank, Zoroaster.