Author: Charles Count Macdonnell (ed.)
Title: Diary of an Austrian secretary of legation at the court of Czar Peter the Great. Translated from the original Latin and edited by the Count Mac Donnell. 2 vols. (xx)
Description: London : Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1863 , 299 + 304 pages. Also 16 pages advertisement for others works published by Bradbury and Evans. Rebound for an unknown, but most probably royal library. During the reign of Peter the Great of Russia the Austrian Emperor sent an embassy into that country. The secretary of the embassy, Johann Georg Kolb, compiled all the information he could gather in a Latin edition, a work deemed “of the greatest value” by the few who saw it. Peter the Great, however, in good tradition staunchly against any information about his country and his reign transpiring without his permission, “had his displeasure at it expressed to the Court of Vienna”, and he sent his agents throughout Europe to hunt down en destroy all copies. The work of the greatest value then also became “excessively rare”. Count MacDonnell found the unique text, translated and published it, but managed to make it only slightly less rare (code N-44)

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