Complete set of ten views of St Petersburg by Lespinasse
LESPINASSE, Louis Nicolas de.
[St Petersburg.]
Paris & Versailles: Printed by Clousier for Blaizot, Froulle and Maradan, 1783-94. Ten engraved plates, largest 255 x 670mm.
Ten views of the imperial city engraved after Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, published in Nicolas-Gabriel le Clerc's 'Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie moderne'.
Lespinasse (1734-1808) based these view on the engravings by Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev (1719-70), who helped John Truscott with his monumental nine-sheet map of St Petersburg of 1753.
Stock ID : 19702
£5,750
£5,750
Complete set of ten views of St Petersburg by Lespinasse
LESPINASSE, Louis Nicolas de.
[St Petersburg.]
Paris & Versailles: Printed by Clousier for Blaizot, Froulle and Maradan, 1783-94. Ten engraved plates, largest 255 x 670mm.
Ten views of the imperial city engraved after Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, published in Nicolas-Gabriel le Clerc's 'Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie moderne'.
Lespinasse (1734-1808) based these view on the engravings by Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev (1719-70), who helped John Truscott with his monumental nine-sheet map of St Petersburg of 1753.
Stock ID : 19702
£5,750
£5,750