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Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727

Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727
Olearius travels in Russia and Persia 1727

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25000 SEK

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30 000-40 000 SEK

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OLEARIUS, ADAM. Voyages tres-curieux et tres-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par le Sr. Adam Olearius ... dans lesquels on trouve une description curieuse & la situation exacte des pays & etats, par ou il a passe, tels que sont la Livonie, la Moscovie, la Tartarie, la Medie, & la Perse ... traduits de l´original par le Sr. De Wicquefort ... divisez en 2 parties. Nouvelle edition revue & corrige exactement, augmentee considerablement, tant dans le corps de l´ouvrage, que dans les marginales, & surpassant en bonte & en beaute les precedentes editions... I-II. Amsterdam (chez Michel Charles Le Céne) 1727.

Folio (about 315x200 mm.). (36), column 1-560, pp (4), column 565-1108, pp. (22, lacks last unpaginated leaf). 2 titles printed in red and black, 1 double page engraved portrait, 10 folding engraved maps, 31 mostly folding engraved plates (all, 3 darkened), 59 engraved vignettes.
Contemporary brown full calf, worn, cracks in the joints, richly gilt spine in seven compartments, damages at foot, red edges. Some foxing, a few leaves browned, some offsetting from plates or engraved vignettes to text.

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).


Auktionsnummer:

6169

Datum:

2016-06-21