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JEAN-BAPTISTE CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (1728-1769) AND STEPAN PETROVICH KRASHENINNIKOV (1713-1755)
Voyage en Sibérie, fait ... en 1761. Paris: Imprimerie Didot for De Bure père, 1768. 2 volumes in 3 and atlas volume, 4° (332 x 248mm). Text volumes: engraved frontispiece by J.B. Tilliard after J.B. le Prince to vol. I, part i, 56 engraved plates and plans, 4 double-page, by J.P. le Bas, J.B. Tilliard, A. de St Aubin, C. Baquoy, et al. after le Prince, C. de Fecamp, and J.M. Moreau, one engraved table, engraved vignette by Duclos after le Prince to I/i title, woodcut vignettes on I/ii and II titles, engraved headpiece and type-ornament headpieces, woodcut tailpieces, letterpress tables in the text, retaining errata and instructions to the binder leaves II/4K3-4. Atlas: engraved frontispiece by J.B. Tilliard after J.B. le Prince, 30 double-page or folding maps and plans, some hand-coloured in outline. (Occasional light spotting, a few leaves and plates lightly browned, a few leaves with very light marginal dampstaining, a few early marginal repairs.). Contemporary crushed green morocco gilt, boards with gilt borders of floral and foliate tools within single rules, gilt turn-ins, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with 'stair' and flower tools, gilt edges, silk markers (lightly rubbed and scuffed, spines faded, corners bumped, some slight spotting or partial fading on boards). Provenance: Conolly family, Castletown House, Co. Kildare, Ireland (bookplates with Conolly crest and 'TCC' monogram [?for Thomas Conolly (1823-1876), Castletown], pressmark labels).
FIRST EDITION. THE CASTLETOWN HOUSE COPY OF CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE'S FINELY-ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF SIBERIA IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING. A colleague of Maraldi, Cassini de Thury, and Lalande at the Paris Observatory, the French priest and astronomer abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche travelled to Siberia in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus in 1761, and his account of the trip (which occupies volume I parts i and ii), describes the meteorology, climate, fauna and minerals of the region, and also gives a sociological commentary. As Hill comments, these 'forthright and sometimes provocative descriptions of Russian manners and character [...] inspired the publication of an indignant rebuttal, sometimes attributed to Catherine the Great'. Volume II contains his translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (St Petersburg: 1755); although a French translation had previously been published, it was based on the abridged English translation, whereas Chappe d'Auteroche returned to the Russian original for his translation. According to the publisher's preface, the translation was made in St Petersburg, where he consulted Gerhard Friedrich Müller -- supervisor of both Krasheninnikov and Steller on Bering's second expedition -- who assisted with the translation and clarified certain obscure points (cf. II, p. x). Chappe d'Auteroche's translation was re-issued as a separate work in 1770 (see lot 96). BM(NH) I, p. 336; Brunet I, col. 1798; Hill 277; Reynaud Notes supplementaires col.83. (4)
Voyage en Sibérie, fait ... en 1761. Paris: Imprimerie Didot for De Bure père, 1768. 2 volumes in 3 and atlas volume, 4° (332 x 248mm). Text volumes: engraved frontispiece by J.B. Tilliard after J.B. le Prince to vol. I, part i, 56 engraved plates and plans, 4 double-page, by J.P. le Bas, J.B. Tilliard, A. de St Aubin, C. Baquoy, et al. after le Prince, C. de Fecamp, and J.M. Moreau, one engraved table, engraved vignette by Duclos after le Prince to I/i title, woodcut vignettes on I/ii and II titles, engraved headpiece and type-ornament headpieces, woodcut tailpieces, letterpress tables in the text, retaining errata and instructions to the binder leaves II/4K3-4. Atlas: engraved frontispiece by J.B. Tilliard after J.B. le Prince, 30 double-page or folding maps and plans, some hand-coloured in outline. (Occasional light spotting, a few leaves and plates lightly browned, a few leaves with very light marginal dampstaining, a few early marginal repairs.). Contemporary crushed green morocco gilt, boards with gilt borders of floral and foliate tools within single rules, gilt turn-ins, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with 'stair' and flower tools, gilt edges, silk markers (lightly rubbed and scuffed, spines faded, corners bumped, some slight spotting or partial fading on boards). Provenance: Conolly family, Castletown House, Co. Kildare, Ireland (bookplates with Conolly crest and 'TCC' monogram [?for Thomas Conolly (1823-1876), Castletown], pressmark labels).
FIRST EDITION. THE CASTLETOWN HOUSE COPY OF CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE'S FINELY-ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF SIBERIA IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING. A colleague of Maraldi, Cassini de Thury, and Lalande at the Paris Observatory, the French priest and astronomer abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche travelled to Siberia in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus in 1761, and his account of the trip (which occupies volume I parts i and ii), describes the meteorology, climate, fauna and minerals of the region, and also gives a sociological commentary. As Hill comments, these 'forthright and sometimes provocative descriptions of Russian manners and character [...] inspired the publication of an indignant rebuttal, sometimes attributed to Catherine the Great'. Volume II contains his translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (St Petersburg: 1755); although a French translation had previously been published, it was based on the abridged English translation, whereas Chappe d'Auteroche returned to the Russian original for his translation. According to the publisher's preface, the translation was made in St Petersburg, where he consulted Gerhard Friedrich Müller -- supervisor of both Krasheninnikov and Steller on Bering's second expedition -- who assisted with the translation and clarified certain obscure points (cf. II, p. x). Chappe d'Auteroche's translation was re-issued as a separate work in 1770 (see lot 96). BM(NH) I, p. 336; Brunet I, col. 1798; Hill 277; Reynaud Notes supplementaires col.83. (4)
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