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Early Printed Books — is a collection of books printed before 1830 stocked in RSL. It embraces electronic copies and facsimile editions of most prominent books of high cultural, scientific and historical significance.
The collection currently features books printed in early Slavonic printing houses in Poland, Montenegro, Walachia, Venice and Prague, including the Ochtoekos (Book of Eight Tones) printed by Schweipolt Fiol in Krakow. There is also a range of the 18th century editions printed by Moskovsky Pechatny Dvor (Moscow Printing House).
A full and comprehensible range of most significant 18th century legislative and state documents and descriptive works includes:
- Manifests, acts, statutes, tariffs adopted during the reign of Czar Peter I, Czarina Anna (Anna Ioannovna), Elisabeth (Elisaveta Petrovna) and Catherine II.
- Statistics records, geographic and topographic descriptions of regions, provinces and towns (compiled by I. Lepekhin, P. Pallas, P. Rychkov).
- First editions of most significant records and studies in Russian history and culture: annals, treaties, books of heraldry, ’Early History of Russia’ by M. Lomonosov, ’History of Russia from the earliest times’ by V. Tatischev, ’History of Russia from early times’ by M. Scherbatov, the Dictionary of writers by N. Novikov and other rarities.
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Pallas, Petr Simon, a Description of plants of the Russian State with their images / By Imperial order, and as dependent of Her Imperial Majesty, published by P. S. Pallas;
This book is the first part of the work, devoted to the description of the plant world of European and Asian parts of Russia by Berlin’s most famous naturalist Petr Simon Pallas. In 1786 the 'Description of plants of the Russsian State with their images...' was published by the Academy of Sciences in Russian translation by scientist Vasily Zuev. The book gives detailed descriptions of the plants and trees on Russian territory along with their location, as well as information about the use of plants in everyday life and medicine. The basis of the publication was formed from the materials collected by Pallas during the expedition from 1768 to 1774.
