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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 9782067, member: 14916&quot;]I bought a book recently and it is shipping at the moment.</p><p>In this book (Comedies of Plautus, Plantin - Antwerp, 1566) a Cyrillic bookplate is added.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller of the books states this is a bookplate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Vladimir_Alexandrovich_of_Russia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Vladimir_Alexandrovich_of_Russia" rel="nofollow">Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia</a>, the son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.</p><p><br /></p><p>What does it say? Can someone read Russian?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]483765[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t found much information on the internet. This is an <a href="https://www-litfund-ru.translate.goog/auction/58s1/45/?_x_tr_sl=it&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www-litfund-ru.translate.goog/auction/58s1/45/?_x_tr_sl=it&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" rel="nofollow">auction lot</a> with the same bookplate (translated via Google Translate).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Although I did not buy the book because of the bookplate, it would have a great provenance if this book was in a royal library one time of it&#039;s life!</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think? Does it add any historical or monetary value to this book? </p><p><br /></p><p>The book itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]483764[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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