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Pierre Charles LEVESQUE Histoire de Russie

Pierre Charles LEVESQUE

Histoire de Russie

Chez Debure l'aîné, à Paris 1782, In-12 (10x17cm), xlviij, 442pp. et (4) 516pp. et (4) 570pp. et (4) 548pp. et (4) 565pp. (3), relié.


First Edition, illustrated with 2 large folding maps of Western Russia and Eastern Russia.
Binders full marbled vintage calf. back with ornate nerves, wheels in tails and heads. Title piece in red morocco, pieces of tomaison with black wax. A wormhole along the upper joint at the end of Volume I. Upper joint of Volume 3 nibbled on 3 cm. Parts of tomaison rubbed. Rubbed corners. Nice copy.
Levesque completed a 7-year stint in Saint Petersburg where he was a professor under Diderot's protection, which allowed him to consult the archives and documents necessary for the completion of his book, which is the most successful history of Russia. the late eighteenth. The work exerted a decisive influence on the image of Russia in Europe and on Russian historiographers. The accuracy of the facts and the quality of the narration helped to make the History of Russia Levesque a classic work in Russia.

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