Guide du voyageur à Moscou, contenant ce que cette capital offre de curieux et d'intéressant ; ses monumens les plus remarquables ; les établissemens appartenant au gouvernement ou fondés par des particuliers ; ses administrations ; sa topographie, sa statistique, son commerce, etc. ; précédé d'un précis historique et sommaire des règnes des Grands-Princes et Tsars de l'ancienne principauté de Moscou ; et suivi d'un itinéraire des principales routes de la Russie

First and only edition, illustrated with 12 plates including 8 lithographed views and 4 folding tables.

Contemporary half calf binding with corners, spine decorated with triple gilt fillets and large blind-stamped fleurons, minor losses at foot of joints, marbled paper boards scuffed with some surface loss, corners worn, edges sprinkled blue.

Scattered light foxing, mostly at the beginning and end of the volume.

This text constitutes the first draft of what would become, in 1835, the major work Description de Moscou.

The folding map that complements this work was only published in 1825 and is not, strictly speaking, part of this edition.

Lecointe de Laveau (1783–1846), settled in Russia by at least 1806 (the year he married there), was secretary of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow. He travelled extensively throughout the Empire and did not return to France until after 1830.