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Mathematics in the hands of the Empress
Rukovodstvo k arifmetike dlia upotrebleniia v narodnykh uchilishchiakh [Guide to Arithmetic for Use in People's Schools]
Mathematics in the hands of the Empress
Rukovodstvo k arifmetike dlia upotrebleniia v narodnykh uchilishchiakh. [Guide to Arithmetic for Use in People's Schools]
Published/created in: 1783
£4,950
Rukovodstvo k arifmetike dlia upotrebleniia v narodnykh uchilishchiakh. [Guide to Arithmetic for Use in People's Schools]
Published/created in: 1783
£4,950
Empress Mariia Fedorovna's copy of an important Russian textbook for arithmetic. First edition, in a lovely example finely bound in green silk with attractive endpapers.
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Pandemic in Catherine's Russia
SHAFONSKII, Afanasiy Filimonovich
Opisanie morovoi iazvy… [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Pandemic in Catherine's Russia
Opisanie morovoi iazvy…. [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Published/created in: 1775
£37,500
Opisanie morovoi iazvy…. [Description of the Plague…in Moscow from 1770 to 1772]
Published/created in: 1775
£37,500
A rare case of a Russian 18th-c. book in Mariia Fedorovna's library: the first Russian scientific work on the plague. An exceptional copy of a major work.
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Illustrated Aesop in a Russian Imperial binding
Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec Celles de Philelphe
Illustrated Aesop in a Russian Imperial binding
Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec Celles de Philelphe.
Published/created in: 1773
£4,500
Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, avec Celles de Philelphe.
Published/created in: 1773
£4,500
Aesop's fables in red morocco with the arms of the Russian Empress: a fine imperial copy of this lovely edition, illustrated with 60 engraved plates.
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