Georgel (Jean François) Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg en 1799-1800, fait...
Georgel (Jean François) Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg en 1799-1800, fait avec l'ambassade des Chevalliers de l'ordre de St.-Jean de Jerusalem, FIRST EDITION, half title, light age yellowing, occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1785 – 1867), contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with floral motifs, marbled edges, [De Backer V, 224; Brunet 23092], 8vo, Alexis Eymery, Paris, 1818. *** Scarce first edition of this travelogue covering the journey of a group of Knights Hospitallers from south west Germany to Saint Petersburg. The first 30 pages contain a detailed list of various contemporary postal routes and an exchange rate table. The rhetorician and mathematician Jean Francois Georgel (1731-1813) was from 1747-62 a member of the Jesuit order.
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Georgel (Jean François) Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg en 1799-1800, fait avec l'ambassade des Chevalliers de l'ordre de St.-Jean de Jerusalem, FIRST EDITION, half title, light age yellowing, occasional spotting, armorial bookplate of Sarah Sophia Child Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1785 – 1867), contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with floral motifs, marbled edges, [De Backer V, 224; Brunet 23092], 8vo, Alexis Eymery, Paris, 1818. *** Scarce first edition of this travelogue covering the journey of a group of Knights Hospitallers from south west Germany to Saint Petersburg. The first 30 pages contain a detailed list of various contemporary postal routes and an exchange rate table. The rhetorician and mathematician Jean Francois Georgel (1731-1813) was from 1747-62 a member of the Jesuit order.
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