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Lot 44
  • 44

[Snegirev, Ivan]

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Description

  • Plutarch' dlya prekrasnago pola ili gallereya znamenitych' Rossianok' [A Plutarch for the fairer sex or a gallery of distinguished Russian ladies]. Moscow: at the University Press, 1819
2 parts in one, 8vo (171 x 106mm.), contemporary quarter calf, lacking any material before the title, lacking A8 (?blank, no break in page numbering), some tears with loss (not affecting text) 

Catalogue Note

A series of 21 short historical essays on royal Russian ladies beginning with the middle ages and such figures as Sofia Fominichna before sweeping through the lives and times of empresses Anna Ivanovna and Elizabeth Petrovna in the early eighteenth century and culminating in the personalities of the writer's lifetime.