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Double your traffic. Peter Simon PALLAS. Voyages du Professeur Pallas, dans Plusieurs Provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale; Traduits de l'Allemand par le C. Gauthier. Paris: Maradan, 1794 . In-4 ( mm 368 x 281 ) Original publisher's board. Spine partially missed. Binding needs a little restoration. 112 uncolored copper engravings. Foxing and browning at several plates. Paper with waterstains. Only Atlas . Text Volumes missed . His travel books opened up Russia to the West and served as a model for 18th-century travel literature. The plates depict native inhabitants and their dwellings, views, and examples of the flora and fauna encountered . Writer: Peter Simon Pallas , (born , Sept. 22, 1741, Berlin—died Sept. 8, 1811, Berlin), was a German naturalist who advanced a theory of mountain formation and, by the age of 15, had outlined new classifications of certain animal groups. In 1761 he went to England to study natural-history collections and to make geological observations. He was appointed professor of natural history at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, in 1768. About the same time he joined a scientific expedition to Russia and Siberia. For the next six years he traveled across the length and breadth of the vast empire. He found a wide distribution of mammoth and rhinoceros fossils, including read more
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