Vvedenie v geografiiu, sluzhashchee ko iz'iasneniiu vsekh landkart zemnago shara s gosudarstvennymi gerbami, i opisanie sferi s tolkovaniem onoi, eia krugov, dvizheniia zvezd, drevnikh i novykh sistem sveta i upotrebleniia globusov i mer geograficheskikh s figurami. [An Introduction to Geography.] Moscow: at the Press of the Moscow Imperial University, 1771. 8° (200 x 123mm). 25 (of 29) engraved maps and plates, some folding. (Lacking plates 3-6; faint damptain in the world map, light soiling.) Contemporary Russian mottled calf, spine tooled and titled in blind, edges red (spine head chipped off, extremities rubbed).
Vvedenie v geografiiu, sluzhashchee ko iz'iasneniiu vsekh landkart zemnago shara s gosudarstvennymi gerbami, i opisanie sferi s tolkovaniem onoi, eia krugov, dvizheniia zvezd, drevnikh i novykh sistem sveta i upotrebleniia globusov i mer geograficheskikh s figurami. [An Introduction to Geography.] Moscow: at the Press of the Moscow Imperial University, 1771. 8° (200 x 123mm). 25 (of 29) engraved maps and plates, some folding. (Lacking plates 3-6; faint damptain in the world map, light soiling.) Contemporary Russian mottled calf, spine tooled and titled in blind, edges red (spine head chipped off, extremities rubbed).

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Vvedenie v geografiiu, sluzhashchee ko iz'iasneniiu vsekh landkart zemnago shara s gosudarstvennymi gerbami, i opisanie sferi s tolkovaniem onoi, eia krugov, dvizheniia zvezd, drevnikh i novykh sistem sveta i upotrebleniia globusov i mer geograficheskikh s figurami. [An Introduction to Geography.] Moscow: at the Press of the Moscow Imperial University, 1771. 8° (200 x 123mm). 25 (of 29) engraved maps and plates, some folding. (Lacking plates 3-6; faint damptain in the world map, light soiling.) Contemporary Russian mottled calf, spine tooled and titled in blind, edges red (spine head chipped off, extremities rubbed).

FIRST EDITION. Rare: WorldCat lists only one copy, at Harvard University. Possibly a Russian translation of Maupertuis (1698-1759). Obol'ianinov 327; SK 852; Sopikov 2385.

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