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Tuesday 20 June 2023 e Wednesday 21 June 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Russia - Siberia

Album, 1700

Estimate

€ 500 - 700

Sold

€ 839

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Russia - Siberia  
Russia - Siberia  
Composite album in folio format of half  from the eighteenth century, opening 5 plates drawn by de Nicolas Louis Lespinasse and engraved by Nee, signed in the plate  by the authors, mm. 300 x 760, among these the view of Cazan,  the Vue de la Ville de Catherinebourg, and the view of Kiakta, follow 4 copper plates depicting ethnic artefacts, 5 plates portraying the  inhabitants men and women of Kazan, Armenians 'Astrakasn, Mongols and others, 5  Plan including  the battle & de la victoire remporteé par les Russes sur les Turcs commandés par le Grand Vizier près de la riviere Kagul en Bessarabie,  at the end of the customs tables, some  also folded  dated from 1764 to 1769.  First engraving  with great  tear, blooms and redness, some spots  binding of the time in half leather with covered plates  in paper,  on the back friezes in gold, defects  and shortcomings.