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RUSSIAN TRAVELS. (2). PALLAS, P. S. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Years 1793 and 1794. Translated from the German... I-II. London (printed by A. Strahan) 1802-03.

4:o (about 260x205 mm.). 3 folding engraved maps (some foxing), 52 mostly folding and handcoloured engraved plates (all, some foxing and minor staining, mainly marginal, a few with dampstaining to margin, text partly with offsetting from plates), 28 mainly handcoloured engraved vignettes.
Contemporary brown full calf, somewhat worn, gilt borders, gilt edges of covers, rebacked gilt somewhat faded spines. 2 volumes.

Collation: (3), iv-xxiii, (1), (3), 4-552, (5), vi-xxx, (2, errata), (3), 4-523, (1 blank) pp.

Pallas was one of the savants chosen by the St, Petersburg Academy to carry on the work of examining the resources of the far distant parts of the Russian Empire. He left St. Petersburg in 1768 and spent full six years in investigating various districts of Sib eria...His reports on the geology, fauna and flora are of great scientific value." Cox, Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, Vol 1., page 199.

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Auktionsnummer:

536756

Date:

2018-06-19