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GMELIN, Johann Georg

Johann Georg GMELIN
Voyage en Sibérie, contenant la description des moeurs & usages des peuples de ce pays, le cours des rivières considérables, la situation des chaînes de montagnes, des grandes forêts, des mines, avec tous les faits d'histoire naturelle qui sont particuliers à cette contrée. Fait aux frais du gouvernement russe, par M. Gmelin, professeur de chymie & de botanique. Traduction libre de l'original allemand, par M. de Keralio (...)[Travels through Siberia: describing the manners, customs, and singularities of the people, the course of the great rivers, the positions of the chains of mountains, great forests, mines, and every thing remarkable in natural history in that country]
Desaint|Paris 1767|9.8 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with two folding plates hors texte.
This is an abridged translation (unusually, this is stated) of the major work Reise durch Sibirien, published in Göttingen in 1751–1752 in four quarto volumes richly illustrated. It recounts a major scientific expedition to Siberia that took place from July 1733 to February 1743. Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755) held the chair of chemistry and natural history at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Despite the erratic pagination of the second volume, the set is complete.
Contemporary full marbled tan calf, flat spines decorated with gilt compartments, red morocco title...
€1,000
Johann Georg GMELIN
Voyage en Sibérie, contenant la description des moeurs & usages des peuples de ce pays, le cours des rivières considérables, la situation des chaînes de montagnes, des grandes forêts, des mines, avec tous les faits d'histoire naturelle qui sont particuliers à cette contrée. Fait aux frais du gouvernement russe (...). Traduction libre de l'original allemand, par M. de Keralio, premier aide-major, à l'Ecole royale militaire (...).[Travels in Siberia, Containing a Description of the Manners and Customs of the Peoples of That Country; the Course of Its Principal Rivers; the Situation of Mountain Chains, Great Forests, and Mines; Together with All the Facts of Natural History Peculiar to That Region. Undertaken at the Expense of the Russian Government (…). A Free Translation from the Original German, by M. de Keralio, First Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Military School (…)]
Desaint|Paris 1767|9.5 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of the illustrated French translation, with 2 plates outside the text, one of which folding.
Bindings in contemporary full mottled fawn calf, smooth spines richly gilt with panelled compartments, joints split and restored, some rubbing and small wormholes to the spines, marbled paper endleaves and pastedowns, gilt fillet to the board edges, marbled edges, two rather clumsy restorations to two corners; bindings of the period.
Pleasing internal condition.
This is an abridged translation (but, unusually, explicitly stated as such) of the major work Reise durch Sibirien, published in Göttingen in 1751–1752, comprising 4 quarto volumes and an abundant...
€1,500
Johann Georg GMELIN
Voyage en Sibérie
Chez Desaint|à Paris 1767|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
First French edition, translated by Louis Félix Guynement de Kéralio, and illustrated with one figure and one folding plate of music.
Contemporary full marbled calf bindings. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title and volume labels. One lack at head of volume I. Volume label missing from volume I. Upper joint cracked at head of volume II. Volume II begins at pagination xx, without lack and in conformity with copies held by the National Library of Scotland, and by the Zoological Society of London. Handsome copy.
Gmelin, as botanist and chemist of the Academy of Sciences, was sent to explore Siberia by Empress Anne with numerous other scientists as part of a vast...
€1,300

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Johann Georg GMELIN

Voyage en Sibérie