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[AMERICA]. SVIN'IN, Pavel. Opit zhivopisnogo puteshestviya po severnoy Amerike. [Sketch of a picturesque voyage in North America]. St. Petersburg: F. Dreksler, 1815.
12° (168 x 100mm). 5 (of 6) folding engraved plates. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling, a few short marginal tears in some plates.) ORIGINAL PINK BOARDS, edges yellow, later green morocco label (soiled, extremities rubbed with some surface loss as spine ends). Provenance: Tavrion Molostvov (title stamp) -- 'printed in Russia' (title-stamp) -- Paul M. Fekula.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The engraved plates, after Svin'in's own drawings, include a view of the Niagara Falls, and an energetic African-American Methodist service. Svin'in joined Russia's first permanent embassy to the United States in 1811 as secretary to consul general Andrei Dashkov. Fekula 2977 (this copy); Sabin 93992.
12° (168 x 100mm). 5 (of 6) folding engraved plates. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling, a few short marginal tears in some plates.) ORIGINAL PINK BOARDS, edges yellow, later green morocco label (soiled, extremities rubbed with some surface loss as spine ends). Provenance: Tavrion Molostvov (title stamp) -- 'printed in Russia' (title-stamp) -- Paul M. Fekula.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The engraved plates, after Svin'in's own drawings, include a view of the Niagara Falls, and an energetic African-American Methodist service. Svin'in joined Russia's first permanent embassy to the United States in 1811 as secretary to consul general Andrei Dashkov. Fekula 2977 (this copy); Sabin 93992.
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