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PALLAS, PETER SIMON: Voyages entrepris dans les gouvernemens méridionaux de l'Empire de Russie dans les années 1793 et 1794. Planches. Atlas seul.
Paris, de l'imprimerie de J. P. Jacob à Paris chez Deterville et à la Librairie Economique, 1805, gr. in-4to (oblong), page de titre poussiereuse et renforcée + au total 55 planches gravées, sur le titre pt. timbre rouge 'Cabinet Topographique du Roi' et cote ms. '(E. 5 / 48)', cartonnage du XIXe s. couvert de papier marbré, pièce de titre maroquin rouge au dos. Bel exemplaire. ¶ Deuxième et dernier voyage de Pallas dont il nous manque les deux vols. de texte. L'Atlas se compose d'un titre typographique suivi par 55 planches numérotées de 1 à 55, dont 6 cartes. Imprimé sur beau papier épais, par-ci par-là petites taches et traces d'usage. 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. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Brunet IV, col. 325; Cat. Russica 36; Stafleu & Cowan 7224; Wood, p. 511; DSB X, pp. 283-285.
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