Stählin(-Storksburg),J.v. Lot n° 2704

Original anecdotes from Peter the Great. Heard from the mouths of respected people in Moscow and Petersburg, and torn from oblivion. Leipzig, Breitkopf 1785. Front.-Portrait by G. G. Endner after J. M. Nattier. 22, 422 S. Marm. Pbd. of the 19th century with hs. (Somewhat rubbed and best.). Cat. Russica S 2100. VD18 14550245. first edition. With his original anecdotes written in German, which are reproduced here almost completely, the author delivered a better piece of contemporary history than the famous Voltaire, to whom a History of Peter I had been commissioned" (From the Epilogue of the reprint, Reclam 1988). - p. 23, 122 and 336 with mont. kl. contemporary. Engravings ("V., XLI. and CXII. Anecdote(s) Peter the Great..."), isolated pencil strokes, back free endpapers with longer contemporary. Notes, partly somewhat foxed and browned.