[MOSCOW]. Istoricheskoe i topograficheskoe opisanie pervoprestol'nogo grada Moskvy [Historical and Topographical Description of the City of Moscow with a general and sectional Plans]. Moscow, 1796. Small 4to, contemporary calf, rubbed, splits in hinges; slight dampstains. 20 engraved maps, some folding. Possibly from the library of Catherine the Great with the accession number 3638 on endpaper.

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[MOSCOW]. Istoricheskoe i topograficheskoe opisanie pervoprestol'nogo grada Moskvy [Historical and Topographical Description of the City of Moscow with a general and sectional Plans]. Moscow, 1796. Small 4to, contemporary calf, rubbed, splits in hinges; slight dampstains. 20 engraved maps, some folding. Possibly from the library of Catherine the Great with the accession number 3638 on endpaper.

Lot Essay

A rare atlas of Moscow with maps of each quarter drawn under the supervision of I. Machenkov and compiled by I.I. Dmitriev, and with exlanatory texts of churches and monasteries. Svodnyi katalog 2692 (second variant); Sopikov/Rogozhin 7622; Bitovt 2497 ("very rare'); not in Drage.

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