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Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1728-1769)
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761. Paris: chez Debure, 1768. 4 volumes (2 text volumes in three and 1 atlas volume), 4° (336 x 248mm). Text volumes: half titles. 57 engraved plates, maps and tables, 4 folding, by J.P.le Bas, N.de Launay and others after J.B.le Prince, J.M.Moreau and others. (Some light soiling or old marginal staining.) Atlas: engraved throughout, frontispiece and 30 folding engravings (14 maps, 5 with some hand-colouring, 5 plans, 10 geological profiles). (Tears or repaired tears to five maps, some dust-soiling or old staining to margins). Uniform contemporary French calf gilt, spines with lettering-pieces in red and green morocco (extremities rubbed, small tears to spines, neat repairs to foot of two spines and some corners).
AN IMPORTANT WORK, RARELY FOUND COMPLETE concerned largely with the travels of the French priest and astronomer, Chappe d'Auteroche. He was sent to Tobolsk in Siberia in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus. He also reported on many other aspects of Russian life and culture, and his candid observations and opinions provoked the anger of Catherine II. The final volume is a translation from a work by Krasheninnikov, originally published in Russian in 1755, and consists of a description of Kamchatka. The work as a whole 'deserves attention for its splendid and accurate engravings and for its powerful descriptions of manner and character. It includes meteorological observations, descriptions of the climate, animals, birds and insects, notes on the iron ore, copper and gold mines.': Hill I, p.49; Cox I, pp.551-562. (4)
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761. Paris: chez Debure, 1768. 4 volumes (2 text volumes in three and 1 atlas volume), 4° (336 x 248mm). Text volumes: half titles. 57 engraved plates, maps and tables, 4 folding, by J.P.le Bas, N.de Launay and others after J.B.le Prince, J.M.Moreau and others. (Some light soiling or old marginal staining.) Atlas: engraved throughout, frontispiece and 30 folding engravings (14 maps, 5 with some hand-colouring, 5 plans, 10 geological profiles). (Tears or repaired tears to five maps, some dust-soiling or old staining to margins). Uniform contemporary French calf gilt, spines with lettering-pieces in red and green morocco (extremities rubbed, small tears to spines, neat repairs to foot of two spines and some corners).
AN IMPORTANT WORK, RARELY FOUND COMPLETE concerned largely with the travels of the French priest and astronomer, Chappe d'Auteroche. He was sent to Tobolsk in Siberia in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus. He also reported on many other aspects of Russian life and culture, and his candid observations and opinions provoked the anger of Catherine II. The final volume is a translation from a work by Krasheninnikov, originally published in Russian in 1755, and consists of a description of Kamchatka. The work as a whole 'deserves attention for its splendid and accurate engravings and for its powerful descriptions of manner and character. It includes meteorological observations, descriptions of the climate, animals, birds and insects, notes on the iron ore, copper and gold mines.': Hill I, p.49; Cox I, pp.551-562. (4)
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