![TUMANSKII, Feodor. Polnoe opisanie deyanii ego velichestva gosudarya imperatora Petra Velikago. [A Complete Description of the Deeds of Peter the Great]. St. Petersburg: Knigopechatne Shnoora, 1788.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0041_000(010840).jpg?w=1)
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TUMANSKII, Feodor. Polnoe opisanie deyanii ego velichestva gosudarya imperatora Petra Velikago. [A Complete Description of the Deeds of Peter the Great]. St. Petersburg: Knigopechatne Shnoora, 1788.
8° (201 x 130mm). With the list of subscribers. Engraved additional title and 11 engraved plates. (Occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary Russian tree-calf, flat spine fully tooled with Greek key and scrolls, red morocco label (extremities rubbed, front joint starting, spine splitting). Provenance: 19th-century inscription on title -- Paul M. Fekula.
FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING of the work for which Tumanskii is most famous, the life and times of Peter the Great, and intended as a companion volume for his Zapiski o Petre I. Tumanskii was a writer, translator, academician and at one time censor of imported books. In 1786 he collaborated with P. Bogdanovich on Zerkalo Sveta. The work is dedicated to Catherine the Great who commissioned it from Tumanskii, her personal translator, literary mentor and confidant. Rare in this condition. Bitovt 2212; Fekula 3019 (this copy); SK 7402; Sopikov 7687.
8° (201 x 130mm). With the list of subscribers. Engraved additional title and 11 engraved plates. (Occasional minor soiling.) Contemporary Russian tree-calf, flat spine fully tooled with Greek key and scrolls, red morocco label (extremities rubbed, front joint starting, spine splitting). Provenance: 19
FIRST EDITION IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING of the work for which Tumanskii is most famous, the life and times of Peter the Great, and intended as a companion volume for his Zapiski o Petre I. Tumanskii was a writer, translator, academician and at one time censor of imported books. In 1786 he collaborated with P. Bogdanovich on Zerkalo Sveta. The work is dedicated to Catherine the Great who commissioned it from Tumanskii, her personal translator, literary mentor and confidant. Rare in this condition. Bitovt 2212; Fekula 3019 (this copy); SK 7402; Sopikov 7687.
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