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CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean (1728-1769). Voyage en Sibérie. Paris: Debure, 1768.
2 vols. in 3 and atlas, 4° (330 x 245mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved maps, 53 engraved plates, some folding, 1 engraved table, and engraved title vignettes, after Moreau le Jeune and Le Prince; atlas volume with engraved frontispiece index and 30 engraved maps, many folding, some hand-coloured in outline. (Occasional light browning and occasional light marginal spotting.) Contemporary red morocco, spines gilt in compartments, edges gilt, atlas in near-contemporary red straight-grain morocco, edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Earl of Derby (binding of text vols., bookplate in atlas with the motto 'sans changer') -- Mark Dineley (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE WITH THE RARE ATLAS, the Earl of Derby's copy. An important work deserving 'attention for its attractive and accurate engravings, and for its forthright and sometimes provocative descriptions of Russian manners and character' (Hill). Chappe d'Auteroche, priest and astronomer, travelled to Siberia in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, but here reports extensively on many aspects of Russian life. The final part consists of his translation of Krasheninnikov's important description of Kamchatka, Alaska and the American northwest, first published in Russian in 1755. Hill 277; Cox I, pp. 551-562. (4)
2 vols. in 3 and atlas, 4° (330 x 245mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved maps, 53 engraved plates, some folding, 1 engraved table, and engraved title vignettes, after Moreau le Jeune and Le Prince; atlas volume with engraved frontispiece index and 30 engraved maps, many folding, some hand-coloured in outline. (Occasional light browning and occasional light marginal spotting.) Contemporary red morocco, spines gilt in compartments, edges gilt, atlas in near-contemporary red straight-grain morocco, edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Earl of Derby (binding of text vols., bookplate in atlas with the motto 'sans changer') -- Mark Dineley (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE WITH THE RARE ATLAS, the Earl of Derby's copy. An important work deserving 'attention for its attractive and accurate engravings, and for its forthright and sometimes provocative descriptions of Russian manners and character' (Hill). Chappe d'Auteroche, priest and astronomer, travelled to Siberia in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, but here reports extensively on many aspects of Russian life. The final part consists of his translation of Krasheninnikov's important description of Kamchatka, Alaska and the American northwest, first published in Russian in 1755. Hill 277; Cox I, pp. 551-562. (4)
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