Russia seu Moscovia itemque Tartaria Commentario Topographico atque politico illustratae.

24mo: [8]-345-[19] pp., engr. title within pagination.

Contemp. overlapping vellum.

Rare 1st ed., one of two printings in the same year, of this anonymous volume in the Elzevier series "Respublicae" with information on the geography, inhabitants, economy and history of Russia, the Baltic and Black Sea regions, compiled from various sources. Owing to their small size, this bestselling series caused a stir among early modern printers and quickly became famous as the first pocketbooks, though it was definitely the ancestor of the modern travel guide as well. With in this case, e.g., an account on the ethics of the Samoyedic people.
Ref. Willems 336. - Sina Rauschenbach, "Elzevirian Republics, wise merchants, and new perspectives on Spain and Portugal in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic". De Zeventiende Eeuw 29 (2013), pp. 81-100.
Joined: Soterus, Henricus - Suecia, sive De Suecorum regis dominiis et opibus. Commentarius politicus. Leiden, Elzevier, 1633. 24mo: [6]-306 pp. Contemp. overl. vellum. 2nd ed. (1st: 1631) compiled and partly written by Henricus Soterus. The first chapter by Anders Bure (1571-1646). Ref. STCN - Willems 394. (2 vol.)