RUSSIA IN SPANISH
LUQUE, Eugenio de.
Estadistica o descripcion geografica y politica del gran imperio de Rusia, traducida del Frances al Castellano por Don Eugenio de Luque.
Madrid, Hija de Ibarra, 1807.
8vo, pp. [8], xxxvii, 244, [6], with 3 hand-coloured plates; a little light creasing to corners at beginning; very good in contemporary Spanish tree-patterned calf, spine decorated in gilt and with gilt lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; small wormhole at head of spine, some rubbing to extremities and covers; small printed advertisement label for ‘la Libreria de Polo y Monge’ of Zaragoza to half-title.
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Estadistica o descripcion geografica y politica del gran imperio de Rusia, traducida del Frances al Castellano por Don Eugenio de Luque.
First edition of this Spanish account of the ‘Great Empire of Russia’ illustrated with three handsome plates depicting different indigenous peoples and costumes of the empire.
Luque begins with an introduction comprising a gallop through Russian history in under forty pages from the fifth century to the close of the seventeenth, which ends by claiming that Peter the Great, for all his qualities, committed ‘crimenes horrendos’. The principal text, apparently a translation from the French, covers Russia’s geography, population, climate, produce and commerce, army and navy, finances, governance and legislation, and its hospitals, prisons, schools, and literature.
Palau y Dulcet 144193. Only 1 copy on Library Hub (Senate House Library).
