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RUSSIA - SIBERIA. (4). CHAPPE D´AUTEROCHE´S INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF SIBERIA TOGETHER WITH KRACHENINNIKOW´S KAMTCHATKA. CHAPPE D´AUTEROCHE, (JEAN) - KRACHENINNIKOW, (KRASCHENINNIKOFF, S. P.). Voyage en Sibérie, fait par Ordre du Roi en 1761, contenant Les Moeurs, les Usages des Russes, & l´Etat actuel de cette Puissance, &c. 2 vols. (and) Kracheninnikow: Histoire et Description du Kamtchatka. Contenant I. Les Moeurs & Les Coutumes de Habitants...II. La Géographie du Kamtchatka, & des Pays Circonvoisins. III. les avantages & les desavantages du Kamtchatka. IV. La reduction du Kamtchatka par les Russes, les révoltes arrivées en différents temps, & l´etat actuel des Forts de la Russie dans de Pays. 2 vols. (4 Parties). Traduit du Russe. Amsterdam (Marc-Michel Rey) 1769-1770.

8:o. (4), (i)-viii, (1)-316, (3), 318-685, (1), (4), (I)-XVI, (1)-439, (1 blank), (4), (1)-492, (2, avis aurelieur, verso blank) pp. 1 folding engraved frontispiece, 4 titles with engraved vignettes, 1 folding engraved table, 1 folding engraved map (with tear, lacks 1 folding engraved map), 11 engraved partly folding plates (lacks 1 plate), 5 folding printed tables (all). Contemporary brown full calf, slightly worn, gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spines in six compartments, marbled edges. Minor foxing. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel. 4 volumes.

Abbé Jean Chappe d´Auteroche (1722-69), French astronomer and priest who in 1761 was sent to Russia to make observations regarding Venus. He died in California on another astronomical journey.
Stepan Petrovich Kracheninnikow (1711-1755), was a Russian explorer of Siberia, naturalist and geographer who was part of Vitus Bering´s Second Kamchatka expedition in 1731-42 and accompanied professor Gmelin on the travel through the Urals and western Siberia to Yeniseysk.
His work is considered to be the first full description of Kamchatka. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1745.

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.

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6138

Datum:

2017-06-20