Sale: 348 / Rare Books, Nov. 17./18. 2008 in Hamburg Lot 511

Jean Francois Georgel - Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg. 1818


511
Jean Francois Georgel
Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg. 1818
Estimate:
€ 200 / $ 214
Sold:
€ 264 / $ 282
(incl. surcharge)
Georgel, [J. Fr.], Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg en 1799-1800. Précédé d'un itineraire statistique et historique de Fribourg (en Brisgaw) à St.-Petersbourg, en passant par Vienne (en Autriche), Cracovie, Brzesk, Riga, Mittau; et en revenant par Memel, Koenigsberg, Dantzick, Berlin, Dresde, etc.Paris, Eymery & Delaunay 1818. Contemp. half calf with gilt spine. 8vo. 487 pp.
De Backer V, 224. - Quérard III, 323. - Not recorded by Backer/Sommervogel. - First edition, rare. - The first 30 pp. with a detailled list of various contemporary post routes and a chart of exchange rates. The rhetorician and mathematician Jean Francois Georgel (1731-1813) was member of a Jesuite order from 1747 to 62. - Binding somewhat rubbed, all in all good copy.



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Jean Francois Georgel
Voyage a Saint-Petersbourg. 1818
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