MILITARIA – SAINT-REMY, Pierre Surirey de (1645-1716). Memorii ili Zapiski artilleriiskiia. V

MILITARIA – SAINT-REMY, Pierre Surirey de (1645-1716). Memorii ili Zapiski artilleriiskiia. V kotorykh opisany mortiry, petardy, doppelgakeny, mushkety, fuzei, i vse shto prinadlezhit ko vsem sim oruzhiiam. T. 2 [iz 2]. [Memoirs of Artillery. In which are described mortars, petards... and all that pertains to these weapons. Vol. 2 (of 2).] St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1733. One volume (of 2), 4° (264 x 193mm). 69 engraved plates (of 70, lacking pl. 190), many folding, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and 3 folding tables. (Some marginal soiling, tears in some plates.) Contemporary calf, sides and spine tooled in blind (spine panel worn, spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, scuffed). Provenance: I.J. von Sperreuter (title signature dated Wodalaga, 1740) – Life Guards Cavalry Regiment (partially legible inscription on front blank dated 1744) – Library of the Imperial Novorosiisk University (18th-century stamp) – Russian bookseller (20th-century stamp on rear pastedown).

FIRST EDITION IN RUSSIAN OF THIS FUNDAMENTAL WORKS ON ARTILLERY. Translated from the French by V.K. Trediakovskii at the command of Tsar Peter I. With engravings by Rostovtsev, Miakishev, Konstantinov, Nesterov, Matveev and Il'in, under the supervision of Pierre Picard. RARE: AE and ABPC record no other copy at auction of any part of this Russian first edition; WorldCat locates copies only at Harvard, and at the Bibliothèque de Genève. Sopikov 6203 ('rare'); SK 6429.

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