ST PETERSBURG – Statiticheskiia svedeniia o Sanktpeterburge. [With:] Tablitsy k statiticheskim svedeniiam o Sanktpeterburge. [Statistical Data about St Petersburg. With: Tables for Statistical Data about St Petersburg.] St Petersburg: Ministry of Internal Affairs, at the Guttenberg Press, 1836. Two volumes, 8° text (212 x 130mm) and 4° tables (264 x 215mm). With the half-titles. Text volume with five plates and tables; tables volume with 98 tables on 79 plates. (Text volume with spotting throughout; occasional light soiling.) Text volume bound in 19th-century Russian green half leather, flat spine lettered directly in gilt within a gilt scrolling frame (extremities rubbed); tables volume bound in 19th-century Russian half calf, flat spine ruled and lettered directly in gilt (rebacked preserving the original spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: [text] ‘I. Ch.’ (initials stamped at foot of spine) – Evgenii Arsen’evich Rumiantsev (1894-1964, curator at the Hermitage; bookplate, title stamp); [tables] Biblioteka General’nago Shtaba (19th-century bookplate) – bookseller’s small stamps on the rear pastedown. FIRST EDITION OF THIS INVALUABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ST PETERSBURG IN THE AGE OF PUSHKIN. The numerous tables of demographic and economic data are accompanied by a text volume rich in case studies and anecdotal evidence; for instance that alcohol was generally the leading cause of death in winter and near holidays. Pushkin had a copy of this work in his library. WorldCat locates two copies, both lacking the volume of tables, at Harvard and the British Library; ABPC and RBH record no copy at auction. Modzalevskii, Biblioteka A.S. Pushkina, 369 and 382.