Reimers... Gesandschaft an die Othomanische Pforte
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RUSSIA - TURKEY. (3). PRINCE NARISCHKIN´S COPY. (REIMERS, HEINRICH VON). Reise der Russisch-Kaiserlichen ausserordentlichen Gesandschaft an die Othomanische Pforte im Jahr 1793. I-III. St. Petersburg (in der Schnoorschern Buchdruckerei) 1803.
4:o (about 258x210 mm.). (6), (I)-XII, (2, verso blank), (1)-220, (3), IV-VIII, (4), (1)-231, (1), (2), (3), IV-VIII, (1)-173, (1) pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 1 folding engraved map, 6 large folding engraved plates (all, one with larger tear, one with small tear in the folding and in outer margin).
Contemporary brown half leather, somewhat worn, slightly darkened gilt spines with red and green spine labels.
Bookplates of C. Narischkine (also his library stamp on first endpapers) and Gösta Nobel.
The Russian embassy to Constantinople of 1793 took place a year after the treaty of Jassy, in which the Porte recognised the Russian annexation of the Crimea and ceded the territory between the Dniester and Southern Bug rivers.
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:
6145
Datum:
2017-06-20