Moeurs, usages et costumes des peuples de la Russie

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 extensive materials gathered by the author during his stay in Saint Petersburg (1773–1780), represented a genuine historiographical breakthrough.

Bound in at the end: three issues of the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires (13 January, 27 January and 6 October 1826).

Provenance: J.-B.-M.-A. de Chauliac, with heraldic ink stamp (captioned in manuscript) on the half-title.