Author: PALLAS, (PYOTR SIMON).- Atlas volume
Title: Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'Empire de Russie, et dans l'Asie Septentrionale; Trad. de l'Allemand par le cit. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouv. éd. Revue et enrichie de Notes par les CC. Lamarck, ...; Langlés ... et Billecocq, Tome Neuvième, (Planches).
Description: Paris, Chez Maradan, libraire, rue du Cimitière André-des-Arts, No. 9. An deuxième de la République (1794). Small in folio. W. 108 (fold.) engr. pls. Contemp. half clf., over speckled marbl. brds., spine elaborately gilt. W. red mor. spine label. (Top of lower outer hinge split over 6 or 7 cm. (Edges of brds. rubb., corners bumped, covers some spots, rubbing and some waterst. on the upper cover.). (III pp., foll. by 108 pls.; ATLAS vol. only.). (A few pls. in the beginning and the plates from nr. 83 to the end some marginal waterspotting.). Second French edition, revised by Lamarck and Langlès consisted of 8 textvols. and 1 atlasvolume. DSB X, pp. 283 - 285: Pallas, P.S., 1741 - 1811, natural sciences, geography. 'In 1767 Pallas was invited to work at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. ... During his first years there he studied nature and the peoples of the Russian Empire, participating in the "Academic expeditions" of 1768 - 1774. His research as leader of the first Orenberg detachment of the expeditions covered both European Russia and Asia. Pallas and his companions journeyed from St. Petersburg to Moscow; crossed the Volga at Simbirsk ...; and explored the Zhiguli Mountains and the southern Urals, the steppes of western Siberia and the Altay, Lake Baikal, and the mountains of Transbaikalia ... His results were published in "Reise durch verschiedenen Provinzen des russischen Reichs ... (1771 - 1776), which later appeared in Russian ... and in French, English and Italian. Pallas' writings ... enriched natural history by providing massive amounts of empirical data ...': Ebert, 14580: The atlas volume only of the second French edition, containing the very large folding engraved map of the Russian empire, 10 geographical maps, 77 botanical engrs., 11 others depicting furnaces, mills, monuments etc.; 11 costume engrs.; 11 animal, natural history and hieroglyphics engrs. together on 108 plates. Nissen, Zool. Buchill., 3076: Brunet vol. IV, 325: Cat. Russica, 36: Wood, p. 511: Stafleu & Cowan, vol. ..., item 7224:

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