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PALLAS, PETER SIMON: Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie septentrionale. Traduits de l'allemand par le C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouvelle Édition, Revue et enrichie de Notes par les CC. Lamarck ... et
Langlès... Ens. de 8 vols. (Texte) + 1 vol. Atlas incomplet (40 pl. sur 108). Paris, Maradan, [1794], in-8vo, environ 3725 p. de texte, 40 cartes et planches gravées, bel ensemble de reliures d'époque en demi-cuir aux coins, dos avec titre et filets or, pièce de titre grise, numération des vols. sur fond rouge, tranches jaunes. ¶ Second French edition of Pallas's 1768-1774 journeys through Russia. The French translation of the work appeared in five volumes and one atlas-volume, 1788-1793. The present nouvelle édition, revised by Lamarck and Langlès, comprises eight text-volumes and one atlas volume with maps and plates. Atlas: 'Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'Empire de Russie, et dans l'Asie Septentrionale' (1er voyage), Tome Neuvième, (Planches), [1794]. 40 planches conservées sur 108, dont la grande carte de l'Empire Russe 1787 (55 x 117 cm) en 2 feuilles (= pl. 1, non numérotée), suivi par les planches num. de 2 à 40. Reliure en demi-cuir, dos avec ornements empire, plats usés. Peter Simon Pallas (Berlin 1741-1811) studied medicine and natural history in Germany, Holland, and England. In 1767 he went to St Petersburg and began to conduct research in Russia. He was an eminent botanist, zoologist and geographer, and "sought to advance from merely describing nature to finding the causal interrelationships and hidden regularities of natural phenomena." Darwin acknowledged his work to have been influential in the development of evolutionary ideas (DSB).In the years 1768 to 1774 Pallas joined so-called "academic expeditions" which traversed the Russian Empire from west to east and explored the Zhiguli Mountains and the southern Urals, the steppes of western Siberia and the Altay, Lake Baikal, and the mountains of Transbaikalia. He studied flora and fauna, landscape, geological condition, local population and culture. His findings were published in Reise durch verschiedenen Provinzen des russischen Reichs (3 volumes, St Petersburg 1771-1776). Brunet IV, col. 325; Cat. Russica 36; Stafleu & Cowan 7224; Wood, p. 511; DSB X, pp. 283-285.

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