Russia - [PLUCHART (Alexandre)]. Nouvelle collection de quar - Lot 239

Russia - [PLUCHART (Alexandre)]. Nouvelle collection de quarante-deux vues de Saint-Pétersbourg et de ses environs dessinées d'après nature par divers artistes accompagnées d'un plan de la ville, divisé par carrés de renvois, à l'usage des étrangers. Saint-Pétersbourg, Se trouve au Salon littéraire français, chez Alexandre Pluchart, 1826. Oblong folio (48.5 x 36 cm), green half-basin with corners, ornate smooth spine, large title vignette with handwritten inscription no. 901 on the front cover (period binding). General plan by Catherinhoff pasted on the front cover, title page, table, plan of the city of St. Petersburg with legend opposite, 42 lithographed views - titled in French except for the last - and 1 additional untitled plate signed A Orlowsky, 1824. Binding worn and stained, dampstaining, scattered freckles and stains, tears in places, several ff. restored, small marginal worm gallery and qqs traces of pencil. Rare album of views of imperial St. Petersburg, complete with 42 plates and one additional plate.