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An English best-seller in 18th-c. Russia
HERVEY, James, and Elizaveta NILOVA (transl.)
Nadgrobnyia razmyshlenia [Meditations among the Tombs]Moskva, N. Novikov, 1782.
First Russian edition of an English 'graveyard' literary work: by a female translator, dedicated to a woman, and later confiscated by Catherine the Great. Very rare.
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Predicting Napoleon's failure
Lettere scritte di Pietroburgo correndo gli anni 1810 e 1811
Milan, Giovanni Bernardoni, 1815.
Saint Petersburg before Napoleon's campaign: a superb example in red morocco, very fresh and exempt of any foxing, of the expanded second edition (published the year of Waterloo), containing sixteen more letters in addition to the six published in the original edition of 1812. A scarce Italian book on Russia.