Details

Subject(s)

• Russia—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Tatars—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Russia—Politics and government—1613-1689 [Browse]
• Russia—Social life and customs—1533-1917 [Browse]

Related name

• Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius, 1612-1653 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Mark Brunswick Collection [Browse]

Printer

• Officina Elzeviriana [Browse]

Donor

• Artin, Michael [Browse]

Former owner

• Brunswick, Mark, 1902-1971 [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Respvblica, Siue Status Regni Poloniæ, Litvaniæ, Prvssiæ, Livoniæ, etc. and 1 other.

Notes

• First Elzeviriana ed. of 1630. -- cf. Goldsmid.
• Date in imprint transcribed from the old form, using the inverted C (apostrophus), to the regular form of Roman numerals.
• Appeared in 2 other issues in the same year, each with 327 numbered pages, distinguished from each other by having different fleurons at the top of p.5, but in other respects, identical.
• Signatures: A⁸-X⁸.
• Running title page 6-181: Descriptio Moscoviae; running title page 182-327: Descriptio Tartariae.
• Engraved t.p.
• Work sometimes attributed to Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn.
• Includes index.
• Princeton copy 2 bound with: Respvblica, Siue Status Regni Poloniæ, Litvaniæ, Prvssiæ, Livoniæ, etc. Lvgd. Batavorvm : Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1642.

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 2 Gift; Michael Artin, Class of 1955, 2022.

References

• Willems. A. Les Elzevier, 336
• Goldsmid. Bibliotheca curiosa.

Place name(s)

Netherlands Leiden.

Other title(s)

• Descriptio Moscoviæ
• Descriptio Tartariæ
• Rvssia seu Moscovia itemque Tartaria

In

Princeton copy 2

OCLC

29695349

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