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St Petersbourg, Charles Guillaume Muller, 1776-1777.. FIRST FRENCH EDITION 1776-1777, 3 Parts bound together in 1 volume, each with separate title page, text in French, translated from the German. PREMIERE COLLECTION: LES NATIONS D'ORIGINE FINNOISE, SECONDE COLLECTION: LES NATIONS TATARES ETABLIES DANS CET EMPIRE, TROISIEME COLLECTION: LES NATIONS SAMOYEDES ET MANDSHOURES, ET LES PEUPLES LES PLUS ORIENTAUX DE LA SIBIRIE. 4to, approximately 260 x 210 mm, 10 x 8 inches, 75 hand coloured costume plates with Russian, German and French captions, 1 PLATE (Devin de Kamtchatka in Part 3 is a later hand coloured plate from "Costume of the Russian Empire, 1811 edition", showing the same image as the original with caption of the original pasted below. Pages: [6], 1-108; [4], 1-228; [4], 1-164, bound in modern half calf, brown gilt lettered label to spine, gilt rules between raised bands and date at foot of spine, marbled boards, modern cream endpapers. First title page laid down with repairs to margins and 1… Read More

Muller, St Petersburg, [1776-77]. . Quarto (26.5 x 18.3 cm). 90 numbered plates coloured by hand, Russian, German and French captions in the plate; first plate spotted, small traces of mount to the versos. Later vellum with manuscript score; soiled. A collection of 90 finely hand-coloured plates published for the Georgi's famous ethnographical workAll captions for the engravings were printed in three languages, so that it could be supplied to the text volumes of any of the three issues: French, German and Russian. The work is divided into the following sections: I. People of the Finnish tribe (25 plates), II. Tatar people (30 plates), III. Samoyed, Manchu and Eastern Siberian people (20 plates). Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729-1803) was a German geographer and chemist. In 1770 he studied at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Two years later Georgi went to accompany Peter Simon Pallas, a German zoologist and biologist, on his expedition through Siberia. "He was particularly interested… Read More

Weitrecht (part 3) et Schnoor for Charles Guillaume Muller, St. Petersbourg, 1776-7. . Three volumes in one accompanied by plates vol., quarto (29.5 x 22.5 cm). Title, [2], 108 pp.; title, [2], 228 pp.; title, [2], 164 pp., uncut, some leaves unopened; marginal waterstain in vols 1 and 3, heavier at the end. Vol. with plates : 25 + 75 engraved plates in fine contemporary hand-colour, with upper wrappers and index for I and II part. Modern half calf gilt over old marbled boards by Aquarius. Fine complete copy of the first edition of the first significant Russian work with plates coloured by hand. All captions for the engravings were printed in three languages, so that it could be supplied to the text volumes of any of the three issues: French, German and Russian. The work is divided into the following sections: I. People of the Finnish tribe (25 plates), II. Tatar people (30 plates), III. Samoyed, Manchu and Eastern Siberian people (20 plates). The plate volume of this copy contains additionally… Read More