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.
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.
![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).](https://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5736307/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_09702_0447_000(vvedenie_v_geografiiu_sluzhashchee_ko_iziasneniiu_vsekh_landkart_zemna075748).jpg?maxwidth=3840)