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EARLY FRENCH WORK ON TRADE IN RUSSIA
WITH REMARKABLE EARLY MAP OF ALASKA









[MARBAULT, Pierre].  Essai sur le commerce de Russie, avec l' histoire de ses découvertes.
Amsterdam, 1777. 12mo. With a large engraved folding map (40.5 x 54.5 cm) of the discoveries of the Russians in the area of Kamchatka and Alaska, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Brown half calf.

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€ 1950

Enaudi II, 3706; V. Gestel - Van het Schip, Maps in books of Russia and Poland 175; Goldsmith I, 11577; Howes M-270; Lada-Mocarski 26; Streeter VI, 3471; Wickershaw 1775; not in Sabin.
Rare first edition of one of the first French works on commerce in Russia, published anonymously but with considerable certainty written by Pierre de Marbault, giving a description of Russia's contemporary situation, government, and both domestic and international trade. Pp. 233-238 slightly frayed without touching the text. Fine copy.