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PALLAS, PETER SIMON. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794. 51 etched plates and 28 vignettes, almost all hand-colored; 4 uncolored folding etched maps. xxiii, [1], 552; xxx, [2], 523 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 261x204 mm, modern 1/4 calf with morocco lettering pieces, spines slightly faded; offsetting from plates, contents otherwise generally clean, plate 16 cropped in outer margin. London, 1802-03
first edition in english of the 1799-1801 account in German of the author's scientific expedition to the steppes near the Caspian Sea, the northern Caucasus, and the Crimea. Pallas was a German-born naturalist at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. DSB X, 283-84; Howgego I, P10.
