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Pallas' Travels in the Russian Empire 1803

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Title: Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, Performed in the Years 1793 and 1794
Author:Pallas, P[eter] S[imon]
Description:4 volumes. xxiv, 336; x, 368; xvi, 362; xx, 352 pp. 22 engraved plates, including 2 folding. (16mo) 5½x3½, period full calf. Issued as Volumes 5 through 8 of Francis Blagdon's "Modern Discoveries".
Peter Pallas, 1741-1811, a native of Berlin, was invited to St. Petersburg by the Empress Catherine as an eminent naturalist, and spent six years, 1768-1774, exploring the Urals, the Kirghiz Steppes, the Altai Range, part of Siberia, and the steppes of the Volga, returning with an extraordinary treasure of specimens; he eventually settled in the Crimea, and produced several significant works on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the regions visited.
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Place Published:London
Publisher Name:James Ridgway
Date Published:1803

Spines darkened, edges worn, front cover loosely attached on Vol. 1; internally very good.

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