Австралия – Avstraliya: Istoriya otkrytiya i kolonizatsii rasteniya i zhivotnyye pyatoy chasti sveta

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Description: С-Петербург : Изданте Е. Лихачев и А. Суворин, 1871 394 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm Summary: Russian translation of Ferguson, 8182, Christmann’s Australien. Geschichte der Entdeckungsreisen und der Kolonisation (Leipzig : Otto Spamer, 1870). A survey of the discovery, exploration, ethnology and natural history of Australia. One of the earliest books specifically about Australia to be printed in Russian.—Douglas Stewart Fine Books, October 2017. Notes: "Sb nvmetskago" [From the German]. "Sb 106 kartinami i risunkami" [With 106 paintings and drawings]. National Library of Australia's SR copy is bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine lettered Австралия and with nineteenth century label with manuscript collection number. The front pastedown and title page have nineteenth century Russian collection stamps of the Totemsky District teachers’ seminary library. The title page also has what may be the original bookseller’s manuscript note and price (2 рубля 50 копеек). Съ нвмецкаго. Съ 106 картиами и рисуиками.