LOMONOSOV, M.V. Kratkoi Rossiiskoi letopisets s rodosloviem [Short Chronicle of Russia with a Genealogy]. St. Petersburg, 1760. 8vo, contemporary calf. Possibly from the library of Catherine the Great, whose library contained similar bindings. First edition.

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LOMONOSOV, M.V. Kratkoi Rossiiskoi letopisets s rodosloviem [Short Chronicle of Russia with a Genealogy]. St. Petersburg, 1760. 8vo, contemporary calf. Possibly from the library of Catherine the Great, whose library contained similar bindings. First edition.

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A short history of Russia with a chronological list of princes and rulers from Riurik to Peter the Great, with a supplement by A.I. Bogdanov, librarian of the Academy of Sciences. Two further editions of this bearing the same date were issued in 1766/7 and 1775 with slight variations. Svodnyi katalog 3740; Sopikov/Rogozhin 6013; Bitovt 3126; Drage 368. Rare.

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