Russland- Perry, J., Der ietzige Staat von Rußland oder Moscau unter
ietziger Czarischen Majestät. Mischaufl. 2 Tle. in einem Bd. Leipzig, Weidmann, 1717-24. Mit gestoch. Frontisp. (ohne die Kupferstichkarte). 5 Bl., 426 (recte 436) S., 8 Bl., 512 S. Hldr. d. Zt. mit Rsch. (Kapital etw. läd., Rücken leicht brüchig, berieben). (205) Erster Teil in zweiter, der zweite in erster Ausgabe. - Adelung II, 401. - Vgl. Nitsche 214. Cox I, 193: "This ingenious officer and mechanic was engaged by the Russian Ambassador, at a salary of 300 pounds a year, to superintend in particular a communication then making between the Volga and the Don. In an introduction to this work Perry gives an account of the many disappointments he experienced during fourteen years of residence in Russia, which he was finally forced to quit without receiving his expected remuneration. Of the country itself, and of the various plans of the Czar for its improvement, a pleasing account is given."
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