SCHERER, Jean Benoit: Annales de la Petite-Russie, ou histoire des Cosaques de L'Ukraine,

ou de la Petite-Russie, depuis leur origine jusqu'a nos jours; suivie d'un Abrege de l'Histoire des Hettmans des Cosaques, & des pieces justificatives: traduit d'apres les manuscrits conserves a Kiow, enrichie de notes. In 2 Volumes. Paris, Cuchet, 1788, 1st. edn. 8vo. (20x13 cm). PP: Half title, title, xvi, 328 (but 330), (ii); Half title, title, (ii), 384, (vi). Cont. full mottled calf gilt. Occasional light spotting, a small worm hole to top inner margin of the first few pages of vol.1 (well away from the text0; light damp stain to top margin of vol.2, hardly visible; otherwise a good copy of a very rare work and the earliest on the "Zaporozhian Cossacks". (2)

Provenance:

From the library of Michael Kuczynski