ALEKSEI MIKHAILOVICH -- KOTOSHIKHIN, Grigorii Karpovich (ca.1630-1667). O Rossii, v tsarstvovaniie Alekseia Mikhailovicha. [Russia during the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich.] St. Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1840. 4° (290 x 230mm). With the last 2 leaves of errata. 1 chomolithographic plate. (Rather spotted.) Contemporary green half sheep (spine chipped, front joint starting, corners very rubbed). Provenance: 'M.O.' (stamp on the half-title) -- Martin Winkler (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. One of the few contemporary accounts of life in Russia during the reign of the first Romanov Tsar, written by an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was also a spy for Sweden, whither he fled via Lithuania in 1664. This text is based on the original manuscript examined in Upsala by Professor Solov'ev in 1837-38. Burtsev 1312.
ALEKSEI MIKHAILOVICH -- KOTOSHIKHIN, Grigorii Karpovich (ca.1630-1667). O Rossii, v tsarstvovaniie Alekseia Mikhailovicha. [Russia during the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich.] St. Petersburg: Eduard Prats, 1840. 4° (290 x 230mm). With the last 2 leaves of errata. 1 chomolithographic plate. (Rather spotted.) Contemporary green half sheep (spine chipped, front joint starting, corners very rubbed). Provenance: 'M.O.' (stamp on the half-title) -- Martin Winkler (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. One of the few contemporary accounts of life in Russia during the reign of the first Romanov Tsar, written by an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was also a spy for Sweden, whither he fled via Lithuania in 1664. This text is based on the original manuscript examined in Upsala by Professor Solov'ev in 1837-38. Burtsev 1312.
