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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part I

Tuesday 30 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

208 Caterina I di Russia

Rousset de Missy, Jean

Memories of the Reign of Empress Catterina, 1740

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Venice, Luigi Pavini, 1740. In 12th. Front door with chalcographic portrait of the Empress, 3 folded plates of which two are geographical and 1 genealogical, frontispiece printed in black and red ink, light blooms, binding in half calfskin, title embossed in gold within a gusset on the spine, spine partially detached. & Nbsp;

Specialist Notes

Jean Rousset de Missy, pseudonym of Iwan Nestesuranoi (1686-1762), a native of Picardy, born to an exterminated Protestant family after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes, fled to Holland where he devoted himself first to teaching and then to writing.