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PALLAS, PETER SIMON.
Travels through the Southern Provinces of the
Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794.
51 etched plates and 28 vignettes,
ALMOST ALL HAND
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COLORED
; 4 uncolored folding etched maps. xxiii, [1], 552; xxx, [2], 523
pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 261x204 mm, modern
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4
calf with morocco lettering pieces, spines
slightly faded; offsetting from plates, contents otherwise generally clean, plate 16 cropped in
outer margin.
London, 1802-03
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
of the 1799-1801 account in German of the author’s scientific
expedition to the steppes near the Caspian Sea, the northern Caucasus, and the Crimea. Pallas
(1741-1811) was a German-born naturalist at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St.
Petersburg. DSB X, 283-84; Howgego I, P10.
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SANSON, NICOLAS.
Voyage ou Relation de l’État Présent du Royaume
de Perse.
5 engraved plates; folding map of Asia. [12], 264, [24] pages, including engraved
additional title. 12mo, contemporary calf, lettering piece off, spine ends chipped, front joint
cracked, cords intact; marginal toning at beginning and end, light soiling on letterpress title.
Bookplate of Charles-Louis Van Bavière (1765-1815) of the Law Faculty of Brussels.
Paris: widow Mabre Cramoisy, 1695
[400/600]
Account of a 1683 Christian mission to Persia originally published in 1694. Ghani, page 331.
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