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Stafengagen, Ivan Ivanovich
(1728-1784).
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Geographical description of the Volga River from Tver to Dmitrevsk for her Imperial Majesty's journey along this river. - [Санктпетербург]: При Имп. Acad. Sciences, [1767]. - [9] L., 8 liters. kart. ; 4. - Circulation 500 copies. "On one of the cards." signature: F. Gandidi fecit. - Excellent. signs of edition: tit. l. and the sheets with the text are enclosed in a frame consisting of small set elements in the form of twigs; The last column of the second sheet with the text mistakenly read: "Turns of the Black River" (follows: the Volga). - Text on one side of the sheet. - Book. is available in the B-kah in three ed., Different fonts, set and design. Maps in all three ed. napec. with the same boards. 1 st ed. "Descriptions", absent in the b-kah, was destroyed as "faulty." This is evidenced by a record in the journal. Acad. commis. 1767: "The printed descriptions of the cities lying on the river Volga five hundred copies destroyed, for their malfunction, and instruct the interpreter Stafengagen to make a description again, and for that of the Geographical Department give him the very originals sent from the cities on the maps of the Volga river tract" . - SK XVIII
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1. Volga, the river - the pool - Geography - 18 in .. |
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BBK 26.89 (2) 5
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Source of electronic copy: РГБ Location on archive: РГБ
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