Voyages… en differentes provinces de l’empire de Russie, et dans l’Asie Septentrionale; Traduits de l’Allemand, par M. Gauthier de la Peyronie, Commis des Affaires Etrangères.

by Peter Simon Pallas

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Atabey, 918 ; Stafleu, 7224 (avec collation détaillée des planches); Nissen ZBI, 3076 (donne par erreur 108 planches; Brunet IV, 325 ; DSB, X, 284. Édition originale de la traduction française. La première édition allemande a paru entre 1771 et 1776. Le naturaliste berlinois Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) participa à l expédition scientifique envoyée en Sibérie pour observer le passage de la planète Vénus sur le disque du soleil. Au cours de son voyage, il explora le cours de l Oural, les bords de la mer Caspienne, l Altaï, les alentours du lac Baïkal jusqu à la frontière chinoise, le Caucase et différentes parties de la Russie méridionale. « In 1767 Pallas was invited to work at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He was elected ordinary academician and had the rank of acting state councilor. For more than forty years Pallas was associated exclusively with the development of Russian science. During his first years there he studied nature and the peoples of the Russian empire, participating in the Academic expeditions of 1768-1774. His research as leader of the first Orenburg detachment of the expeditions covered both European Russia and Asia Pallas writings and the other materials of the « Academic expeditions » enriched natural history by providing massive amounts of empirical data which made it possible to generalize on the geographical distribution of plants and animals and to gain knowledge about the orography, climate, population, and economy of varied and little-st

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