Essai sur le commerce de Russie
Subtitle: avec l'histoire de ses découvertes
Publisher: [s.n.]; [publisher not identified]
Published: 1777
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Russian; Commerce; History; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Attributed to Marbault by Barbier.

"Découvertes & commerce de la Russie dans la mer orientale & en Amerique": p. 279-299.

Includes folded map, drawn by Gerardin and engraved by Croisy, following p. [1], 3rd count, entitled "Carte des déscouvertes des Russes dans la mer orientale, et en Amérique pour servir à l'essai, sur le commerce de Russie" and shows Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, and part of Alaska.

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-2B⁶

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), 5688.

Lada-Mocarski, V. Bibliography of books on Alaska published before 1868, 26.

Purchase; 2017; 18-369.

John Carter Brown Library copy has folded map hand-colored in brown, and green.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.