LOMONOSSOW, MICHEL (LOMONOSOV, MIKHAEL VASILIEVICH). - FOUNDING RUSSIAN HISTORICAL WRITING.

Nouvelle Histoire de la Russie, depuis l'origine de la Nation Russe, jusqu'à la mort du Grand-Duc Jaroslaws Premier. Traduit de l'Allemande; par M.E***. Augmentée de deux Cartes Géographiques.

Paris, Nyon, 1776. Later hcloth (ca. 1840). Gilt lettering to spine. XXXII,253 pp., 2 folded engraved maps. Wide-margined, clean and printed on good paper.

First French edition. Translated from the German translation of his "Drevniaia rossiiskai istoriia..." (St. Petersburg 1766).
"Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was the first Russian scientist-naturalist of universal importance. He was a poet who laid the foundation of modern Russian literary language, an artist, an historian and an advocate of development of domestic education, science and economy. In 1748 he founded the first Russian chemical laboratory at the Academy of Sciences. On his initiative the Moscow University was founded in 1755." (Russiapedia).

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