Voyages de M. P. S. Pallas en Differentes Provinces de l’Empire de Russie, et dans l’Asie Septentrionale. (Atlas only)

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First French edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter brown leather over boards,. 34×25.5×3.7 cm. Maradan. Paris. 1793. 101 plates. Translated by Gauthier de la Peyronie. 101 (of 123?) engraved plates, including maps, botanicals, costumes monuments, animals, and the large folding general map of the Russian empire. Good. glue repairs to spine, covers scuffed and edgeworn, large map detached, scattered soiling and foxing to plates, old pencil sketches to rear endpapers. Atlas only, originally issued to accompany the 5-volume French edition of Pallas’ monumental travelogue of the Russian Empire. Lacking a few plates but includes the large folding map. Heavy book, may require extra shipping. weight: 4.0 lb.