![BARANSHCHIKOV, Vasilii. Neshchastniya priklucheniya. [The Unfortunate Adventures of the Nizhnii Novgorod Merchant Vasilii Baranshchikov in America, Asia and Europe from 1780 to 1787]. St. Petersburg: Vil'kovskii i Galchenkov, 1787.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0001_000(010839).jpg?w=1)
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BARANSHCHIKOV, Vasilii. Neshchastniya priklucheniya. [The Unfortunate Adventures of the Nizhnii Novgorod Merchant Vasilii Baranshchikov in America, Asia and Europe from 1780 to 1787]. St. Petersburg: Vil'kovskii i Galchenkov, 1787.
8° (180 x 110mm). (Title repaired in the inner margin). Contemporary boards (lightly rubbed). Provenance: 18th-century collection (de-accessioned shelf-marks).
FIRST EDITION. RARE. Baranshchikov's account of his eventful peregrinations in the age of Catherine the Great was exhibited in the New York Public Library's 'Russia Engages the World' (Catalogue, p.197). Despite travelling through a wide area, including Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Constantinople and Jerusalem, Baranshchikov is still unknown to most Western bibliographers. SK 4575; Smirdin 2907; Sopikov 8986 ('still no known copy of the first edition').
8° (180 x 110mm). (Title repaired in the inner margin). Contemporary boards (lightly rubbed). Provenance: 18
FIRST EDITION. RARE. Baranshchikov's account of his eventful peregrinations in the age of Catherine the Great was exhibited in the New York Public Library's 'Russia Engages the World' (Catalogue, p.197). Despite travelling through a wide area, including Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Constantinople and Jerusalem, Baranshchikov is still unknown to most Western bibliographers. SK 4575; Smirdin 2907; Sopikov 8986 ('still no known copy of the first edition').
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