CHAPPE D'AUTROCHE, Abbé. Voyage en Sibérie fait par Ordre du Roi en 1761. Paris, 1768. 2 vols. in 4 including Atlas, 4to and folio, text in contemporary calf, rubbed, atlas in contemporary green vellum, slightly worn. Text with engraved frontispiece, 3 maps and 53 plates after Le Prince and others, some folding, half-titles, final leaf of directions to the binder in vol.3. Atlas with engraved title and 32 maps (of 33, without map 10). (4)

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CHAPPE D'AUTROCHE, Abbé. Voyage en Sibérie fait par Ordre du Roi en 1761. Paris, 1768. 2 vols. in 4 including Atlas, 4to and folio, text in contemporary calf, rubbed, atlas in contemporary green vellum, slightly worn. Text with engraved frontispiece, 3 maps and 53 plates after Le Prince and others, some folding, half-titles, final leaf of directions to the binder in vol.3. Atlas with engraved title and 32 maps (of 33, without map 10). (4)

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The voyage to Tobolsk in order to observe the passage of Venus before the Sun, this account describes the people of Russia and their customs, the geography and natural history. The second volume contains the first translation of S.P. Krasheninnikov's "Voyage en Sibérie, contenant la Description du Kamchatka". According to Brunet 20770 map 10 of the Vosges was issued later, so is often not included in the atlas. Russica C493.

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