CARBURI, Marin. Monument élevé a la gloire de Pierre-le-Grand, ou

FIRST EDITION. folio (431 x 285 mm.), 47 pp. (small restoration to the margins of two plates and to the blank leaf at the end, mild browning mainly to the margin of one plate). With 12 double-page engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf, covered with paper (minor wear, edges sprinkled), modern slipcase. --- Marin Carburi, Cephalonite engineer and lieutenant-colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, undertook the feat of moving the "Thunder Stone", the largest stone ever moved by humans, from the Gulf of Finland to Saint Petersburg, to serve as the base for the equestrian statue of Peter the Great Author: CARBURI, Marin. Title: Monument élevé a la gloire de Pierre-le-Grand, ou Relation des travaux et des moyens mechaniques qui ont été employés pour transporter à Pétersbourg un rocher de trois millions pesant, destiné à servir de base à la statue équestre de cet Empereur; avec un examen physique et chymique du même rocher. Par le comte Marin Carburi de Ceffalonie. Publication info: Παρίσι, Nyon ainé και Stoupe, 1777.

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