Live auction - Lot 567
[Russia]
Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie. Atlas.
Paris, s.n., 1783-1794]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Large folio: 37 (of 38) pl.+ 17 letterpress tables (map of Tartary missing, bound at random, heavily dampstained, mildew spots, some sm. tears).
19th-c. sheepskin, mottled paper covers (used).
Atlas of Russia under Catherine the Great, in 1st ed., with a large plan of Saint Petersburg engr. by P.F. Tardieu, 7 sm. plans of Kronstadt, Moskow, etc., 3 maps of the Sea of Mazov, the Caspian Sea and the course of the river Terek, 17 fine views after Lespinasse of Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Novogorod, etc., 9 pl. with archeological artefacts and/or costumes, and 17 letterpress tables regarding trade and the navy.
Ref. Brunet III:916 - Cohen 613.