![LE CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel (1726-1798). Atlas for Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie. Paris and Versailles: Froullé and Blaizot [1783-1794]. 2° (500 x 325mm). 33 (of 38) engraved views, maps and plans after Lespinasse, Pauquet and others, and 16 letterpress tables. (Lacking the folding map of Russia et al., dampstained throughout, some spotting, short tears near the folds of some folding plates.) 19th-century half sheep (spine defective, boards detached, worn).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_02362_0387_000(le_clerc_nicolas_gabriel_atlas_for_histoire_physique_morale_civile_et074312).jpg?w=1)
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ST PETERSBURG -- MAKHAEV, Mikhail and Ivan SOKOLOV. Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpeterburga. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1753 [but c.1770s]. 2° (490 x 330mm). Comprising the title, three leaves of captions paginated 3-8, and 12 folding engraved plates on 16 sheets after Makhaev; EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with engraved portraits of Catherine II and Pavel Petrovich both by A. Radigues. (The plate margins cut down generally not affecting the main image but affecting the lower part of the central ornament in the captions, one plate with a few letters lost in the caption, some mostly marginal repairs, light soiling and occasional light spotting, one leaf of captions bound out-of-sequence). 20th-century green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
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ST PETERSBURG -- MAKHAEV, Mikhail and Ivan SOKOLOV. Plan stolichnago goroda Sanktpeterburga. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1753 [but c.1770s]. 2° (490 x 330mm). Comprising the title, three leaves of captions paginated 3-8, and 12 folding engraved plates on 16 sheets after Makhaev; EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with engraved portraits of Catherine II and Pavel Petrovich both by A. Radigues. (The plate margins cut down generally not affecting the main image but affecting the lower part of the central ornament in the captions, one plate with a few letters lost in the caption, some mostly marginal repairs, light soiling and occasional light spotting, one leaf of captions bound out-of-sequence). 20th-century green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
THE RARE FULL SUITE OF MAKHAEV VIEWS OF ST. PETERSBURG, one of the masterpieces of 18th-century engraving in Russia, commemorating the city's remarkable growth in the 50 years since its foundation, and commissioned as part of the city's first jubilee celebrations. It accompanied a large plan of the city, but plan and views are very seldom found together. SK 5347 (ie. with the third variant of the plate 'Prospekt Nevskoi Perspektivnoi dorogi'); cf. Obol'ianinov 2048.
THE RARE FULL SUITE OF MAKHAEV VIEWS OF ST. PETERSBURG, one of the masterpieces of 18th-century engraving in Russia, commemorating the city's remarkable growth in the 50 years since its foundation, and commissioned as part of the city's first jubilee celebrations. It accompanied a large plan of the city, but plan and views are very seldom found together. SK 5347 (ie. with the third variant of the plate 'Prospekt Nevskoi Perspektivnoi dorogi'); cf. Obol'ianinov 2048.