Southern Ukraine for Swedes
Publication: Stockholm, 1805.
£375
Early Russian work on the Crimea, here translated in Swedish. Uncommon.
£375
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Early translation, here the first in Swedish, of Sumarokov’s important Journey through all Crimea and Bessarabia in 1799. First an office in the guards, Pavel Sumarokov (1767 – 1846) soon retired and devoted himself to public and literary activities. The government sent him as a judge in Crimea, and in the beginning of the 19th century he became the civil governor of Vitebsk. He became senator and member of the prestigious Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sumarokov became famous for writing the essays “On the reign of Catherine the Great,” “Traits of Catherine the Great,” and the drama “Martha the Governor’s Wife,” the comedies ” Snappy Dresser”, “Green Corset”, “Walk Abroad”, etc.
Provenance
Fredrik Borg, Lund, Sweden (stamp to title page and ink inscription on front paste down reading “Fr. Borgs Låne-Bibliothek” [loaning/borrowing library of Fredrik Borg]).
Item number
1769
Octavo (17.5 x 11 cm). [8], 110 pp.
Binding
Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards.
Condition
Binding worn, head of spine chipped, spine rubbed; occasional spotting internally, marginal traces of original wrappers on title and final blank, 19th century inscription on front pastedown.
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