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Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793

Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793
Plates to Pallas´s voyages 1793

Klubbat för:

4000 SEK

Utropspris

6 000-7 000 SEK

Beskrivning

RUSSIA. PALLAS, P. S. Voyages en différentes provinces de Russie et dans l´Asie Septentrionale... Vol. VI. Planches. Paris (chez Maradan) 1793.

4:o (about 330x240 mm.). Half-title, title, 124 numbered illustrations on 108 engraved partly folding maps, plans and plates (all, some minor marginal dampstainig, minor foxing, a few tears in the foldings).
Contemporary brown half calf, somewhat worn, gilt spine, speckled edges. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel.

Only plates.

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:

6176

Datum:

2017-06-20