NESTESURANOI (IWAN) (Pseudonym of JEAN ROUSSET DE MISSY)

Mémoires Du Regne De Pierre Le Grand, Empereur De Russie, Père De La Patrie... Nouvelle Edition. 4 vols.

Amsterdam, Wetsteins & Smith, 1728.

8vo. Uniformly bound in four full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper label pasted on to top of spine indicating the placement in an estate library. Gilt super ex-libris to front board of all four volumes. Light wear to extremities, boards with scratches and some of the gilt ornamentation worn off. Internally fine and clean. (38), 550, (32) pp. + frontispiece; (8), 608 pp. + frontispiece and folded map; (6), 635, (1) pp. + frontispiece; (6), 752 pp. + 2 frontispieces and folded map.  

Later improved edition of De Missey's highly popular work on Peter the Great of Russia. 

Order-nr.: 60606