Simon Pallas - Voyages entrepris dans les gouvernemens meridionaux de l’Empire de Russie - 1805

By Peter Simon Pallas (Berlin 1741-1811) studied medicine and natural history in Germany, Holland and England, was an eminent botanist, zoologist and geographer. Second trip undertaken in the Urals, the steppes of western Siberia and Altay, Lake Baikal and the mountains of Transbaikalia, studying the flora and fauna, landscape, geological condition, population and local culture. Fine paperback cover in fair condition, complete pages with beards in excellent condition, all 28 engraved plates are present, pages 663 + 653, dimensions cm. 22 x 27, printed in Paris by Deterville in 1805 there is an album / atlas with paperback cover in poor condition, with 55 plates, plate no. 55 is cut but does not affect the image (see photo) , size cm. 30 x 44. The photos are an integral part of the lot which will be sent via tracked shipping.