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- 1781
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Lot 07
Ivan Shuvalov
Brief Description of All Sciences
I. Shuvalov, A Brief Description of All the Sciences. Moscow, University Printing House, under N. Novikov, 1781. 75 pp.
A rare Enlightenment volume from the reign of Catherine II, translated from German by Ivan Shuvalov, a student at Moscow University. Printed at N. Novikov's celebrated university press, the book is arranged in question-and-answer form and was intended for the education of the young nobility.
Published in parallel Russian and German text, the volume is a valuable eighteenth-century educational manual and a significant record of the system of knowledge transmitted in Russia during the second half of that century.
A bibliographic rarity of particular historical and collecting interest.
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