Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs
Subtitle: ihrer Lebensart, Religion, Gebräuche, Wohnungen, Kleidungen und übrigen Merkwürdigkeiten ...
Contributors: Müller, Carl Wilhelm, publisher; Schnoor, Johann Karl, printer; Roth, C. M. (Christoph Melchior), 1720-1798, engraver
Publisher: Verlegts Carl Wilhelm Müller
Published: 1776
Place of publication: St. Petersburg
Language: ger
Subjects: Ethnology; Early works to 1800; Costume; Social life and customs
Other titles: Kupfer zur Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs
Notes: Vorrede signed: Joh. Gottl. Georgi.

Plates engraved by C. M. Roth & Schlepper. Cf. Colas.

Vol. 2 lacks printer statement. Vol. 3-4 have imprint: St. Petersburg, Bey Carl Wilhelm Müller. Gedruckt bey Weitbrecht und Schnoor ...

Vol. 2 dated 1776; v.3 dated 1777; v.4 dated 1780.

Plates may have been issued separately. In HHG copy, plates are bound together, and plates for v. 1 and 2 have title-pages, with title: Kupfer zur Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs ... Plates for v. 3 and v. 4 lack title-pages.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² *-2*⁴ A-K⁴ L²; v.2: pi² M-2L⁴ 2M²; v.3: pi² 2N-3D⁴ 3E²; v.4: pi² 3F-3X⁴ 3Y⁴ (-3Y4).

Vol. 1: [4], xii, [4], 84 p., [25] leaves of plates; v.2: [5], 86-271, [1] p., [26]-[55] leaves of plates; v.3: [5], 274-396 p., [56]-[75] leaves of plates; v.4: [5], 398-530, [10] p., [76]-[95] leaves of plates.

Engraved head- and tail-pieces

Captions accompanying plates in Russian, German and French.

In some copies, plates are hand-colored.

Index at end of v.4.

Colas, R. Costume, I, 1223

Imperatorskai͡a publichnai͡a biblīoteka (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Catalogue de la section de Russica, I, 336
Table of contents: title: (from title-pages) 1. Ausg. Nationen vom finnischen Stamm; title: 2. Ausg. Tatarische Nationen; title: 3. Ausg. Samojedische, Mandshurische und ostlichste Sibirische Nationen; title: 4. Ausg. Mongolische Völker, Russen und die noch übrigen Nationen.