Author: SIESTRZÉNCEWICZ DE BOHUSZ, STANISLAW:
Title: Histoire du royaume de la Chersonese Taurique. St. Petersburg, le l'Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale Russie, 1824.
Description: . 4to. Pp. (vi), 433. With two large folding engraved maps of Scythica (Pontic steppe) and "La Tauride" (Crimea), and two small engraved plates. Uncut copy in original wrappers, spine partly gone, back cover detached, chipped at edges, loose in binding. Housed in a specially made paper-covered box. Second enlarged edition, first 1800 (Brunswick). This is an historical account of Tauric Chersonese which is the ancient name for Crimea. Stanislaw Siestrzéncewicz de Bohusz (1731-1826), Polish Catholic, prominent member of the Russian Academy and the first metropolitan Archbishop of Mogilev in present-day Belarus. Rare. Brunet v, 377. Graesse vii, 401.

Keywords: Europe, russia, russian, russe, travel, exploration, history, historical, crimea, krimea, tauride, scythica, pontic steppe, caspian,


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