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RUSSIA - CHINA. (2). (WEBER, FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN . Nouveaux memoires sur l'etat present de la Grande Russie ou Moscovie... I-II. Paris (chez Pissot) 1725. 8:o (151x89 mm.). (4, lacks half-title), vii-xxiv, 1-438 (wrongly printed 338); (6), 1-426, (4, last blank) pp. 1 large folding engraved map (of the Russian empire, small tape-mended tear in inner margin), 1 large folding engraved plan (of St. Petersburg, tape-mended tear in inner margin), 1 engraved plate. Near contemporary brown half calf, gilt spines, marbled edges. 2 volumes. Löwendahl: China illustrata nova, 350. First edition in French, first published in German in Frankfurt 1721. Weber's "Memoires..." are considered to be one of the most important accounts of the period in Russia during the reign of Peter the Great. The second volume contains a large part (pp. 89-144) "Journal de Voyage de Laurent Lange à la Chine". From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).