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7000 SEK

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RUSSIA - SIBERIA. CHAPPE D´AUTEROCHE, JEAN. A Journey into Siberia, made by order of the King of France... Containing an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Russians, the Present State of their Empire, with the Natural History, and Geographical Description of their Country, and Level of the Road from Paris to Tobolsky. London (printed for T. Jefferys) 1770.

4:o (about 265x210 mm.). (3), iv-xiii, (7), (1)-395, (1, Errata) pp. 1 folding partly coloured engraved map (worn in outer margin, some creases), 9 engraved plates (all, some minor offsetting from text to a few plates).
Contemporary brown full calf, somewhat worn, some cracks in the joints, gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spine in six compartments. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel.

Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.

Auktionsnummer:

6137

Datum:

2017-06-20