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

Item

Title
Австралия – Avstraliya: Istoriya otkrytiya i kolonizatsii rasteniya i zhivotnyye pyatoy chasti sveta
Subject
Australia--Description and travel
Australia--Discovery and exploration
Russian language
Manuscripts, German
Pictures
Category
1. Settlement
Publisher
E. Likhachev and A. Suvorin
Place of Publication
S. Peterburg
Keywords
translation
Current holder
National Library of Australia
Date
1871
Link
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/7467903
Series number
SR 1015
Item number
7467903
Access rights
Request at location
Rights 
Out of copyright
Country of origin
Russia (Federation)
Place
St Petersburg
Language 
Russian
Description from source
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.
Physical format
Books
Related resources 
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3941/