![[LOMONOSOV, Mikhail]. Torzhestvo Akademii nauk na vozhdelennii den tezoimenitel'stva... Imperatritsi Elizaveti Petrovni. [Celebration by the Academy of Sciences on the longed-for Name-Day of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1751.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07295_0022_000(010839).jpg?w=1)
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[LOMONOSOV, Mikhail]. Torzhestvo Akademii nauk na vozhdelennii den tezoimenitel'stva... Imperatritsi Elizaveti Petrovni. [Celebration by the Academy of Sciences on the longed-for Name-Day of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1751.
4° (234 x 184mm). Engraved tail-piece. (Faint dampstain throughout.) Contemporary blue paper wrappers (light creasing, spine chipped with some loss). Provenance: ?Catherine II (binding) -- Smirdin (bookplate) -- Paul M. Fekula.
VERY RARE, PROBABLY FROM THE LIBRARY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT, who favoured this binding style (Fekula), and later in the Smirdin Library. This publication contains Lomonosov's lecture on the uses of Chemistry, Slovo o pol'ze khimii, Kratsenshtein's lecture on navigation, Rech'... o novikh svoikh izobreteniiakh v moreplavatel'noi nauke, and a reply by A.N. Grishov. ONE OF 300 COPIES ONLY. Bitovt 1117; Fekula 2173 (this copy); SK 7285; Smirdin 11594.
4° (234 x 184mm). Engraved tail-piece. (Faint dampstain throughout.) Contemporary blue paper wrappers (light creasing, spine chipped with some loss). Provenance: ?Catherine II (binding) -- Smirdin (bookplate) -- Paul M. Fekula.
VERY RARE, PROBABLY FROM THE LIBRARY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT, who favoured this binding style (Fekula), and later in the Smirdin Library. This publication contains Lomonosov's lecture on the uses of Chemistry, Slovo o pol'ze khimii, Kratsenshtein's lecture on navigation, Rech'... o novikh svoikh izobreteniiakh v moreplavatel'noi nauke, and a reply by A.N. Grishov. ONE OF 300 COPIES ONLY. Bitovt 1117; Fekula 2173 (this copy); SK 7285; Smirdin 11594.
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