(ROUSSET DE MISSY, JEAN)

Mémoires du Regne de Catherine, Impératrice & Souveraine de toute la Russie

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1729.

8vo. In contemporary full calf binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities and some of gilting to spine worn off. Title-page in red and black. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front board. (6), 613, (5) pp. + 3 folded plates and 1 frontispiece.

Second edition of this biography of Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727.

Provenance: From a large Danish estate. 

Order-nr.: 60602