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Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761; contenant les mœurs, les usages des Russes, et l'etat actuel de cette puissance; la description géographique & le nivellement de la route de Paris à Tobolsk ... par m. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche ...

Accession number
PML 44512-14
Creator
Chappe d'Auteroche, abbé, 1728-1769.
Published
Paris : Debure, pere, 1768.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Valerian Lada-Mocarski, Dec. 1952.
Notes
Vol. ... has title: Voyage en Sibérie, contenant la description du ...
Atlas (44515) has engraved illustrated t.-p. with title: Carte générale.
Engravings by J.C. Bacquoy, Nicolas Chalmandrier, P. Croisey, A.J. Duclos, Louis Germain, Nicolas de Launay, J.P. Le Bas, Augustin de Saint Aubin and Angélique & J.B. Tilliard, in part after J.B. Le Prince & J.M. Moreau; some are signed "Caresme" or Caresme de Fecamp" (i.e. Philippe Caresme?).
Title vignette.
Illustrations by Le Prince, Caresme de Fecamp and Moreau le jeune engraved by Tilliard, Baquoy, Le Bas, Angelique Bregeon, De Launay, St. Aubin and Duclos.
Thième-Becker, 33 : 172 (under Tilliard, J.E.).
Description
2 v. in 3 : front., 53 pl., 3 maps, tab. ; 35 cm + and atlas of 31 maps (part fold.) 64 cm
Provenance
With the armorial book-plate of Francesco Rizzo Patarol.
Binding
Contemporary mottled calf; atlas in green vellum over pasteboard.
Classification
Department