Nestesuranoi (Iwan) [pseudonym of Jean Rousset de Missy] Memoires...

Nestesuranoi (Iwan) [pseudonym of Jean Rousset de Missy] Memoires du regne de Pierre le Grand, 4 vol., second edition, engraved frontispieces, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, 4 folding engraved plates, including 2 maps, in vol. 2 & 4, a little offsetting and dust soiling, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges, extremities rubbed and rather scuffed, with board exposed in vol. 1-2, 8vo, Wetsteins & Smith, Amsterdam, 1728-30; with [Catherine II, Empress of Russia] The Antidote or an Enquiry into the merits of a book entitled A Journey into Siberia, made in 1761, First English Edition, front free endpaper detached, bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943), and early shelfmark, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Querard II:129; Barbier I:212], S. Leacroft, 1772, 8vo (5) *** The second work is the translation of the French work ‘Antidote, ou, Examen du mauvais livre ... intitulé, Voyage on Sibérie, fait par ordre du roi en 1761’, first published at St. Petersburg in 1770, and attributed to Catherine II of Russia, to the Princess Dashkova, and to Andrei Petrovich Shuvalov.
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