Pierre-Charles LEVESQUE
Moeurs, usages et costumes des peuples de la Russie[Customs, Usages, and Costumes of the Peoples of Russia]
Pierre-François Fauche et Compagnie • Imprimerie de Guilleminet • A la librairie économique|Paris • Hamburg • Brunswick An VIII (1800)|21.4 x 27.7 cm|Relié
New edition illustrated with 16 folding copper-engraved plates.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (Collège de France, Caen). As such, the volume is not cited by Quérard nor by Cioranescu.
Contemporary temporary blue paper boards, smooth spine, unlettered. Minor rubbing to the spine-ends.
Some foxing.
As such, the volume is not cited by Quérard nor by Cioranescu. It nevertheless constitutes the exceedingly rare atlas to the second edition of the Histoire de Russie tirée des chroniques originales, published in the same year, 1800, in 8 volumes of text.
The first edition had appeared in 1782 in five duodecimo volumes and, compiled from the extens
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