Voyage en Moscovie d'un ambassadeur, conseiller de la chambre impériale, envoyé par l'empereur Leopold au czar Alexis Mihalowics, grand duc de Moscovie.
by MEYERBERG, Augustin von
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Leide, Friderik Harring, 1688.Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, with rased bands. With woodcut title-vignette. 381 pp.First French edition. - The original manuscript is in Latin, an Italian translation was published in 1697. Augustin von Mayern, Freiherr von Meyerberg, a German diplomat, travelled together with Horace Guillaume Calvuccius to the Russian czar in Moscow, in 1661-1663. Mayerberg's account of his experiences contains much useful information on seventeenth century Russian manners and customs.- (Stamp partly erased from title-page; age-browned). - An early and rare ambassy.Cat. Russica M 623; Cf. Adelung 100 and Muller, Bibl. Neerl.-Russe, 888.
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- Voyage en Moscovie d'un ambassadeur, conseiller de la chambre impériale, envoyé par l'empereur Leopold au czar Alexis Mihalowics, grand duc de Moscovie.
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- MEYERBERG, Augustin von
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