MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF PRINCE POTEMKIN, FIELD MARSHALL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY; GRAND ADMIRAL OF THE FLEETS; KNIGHT OF THE PRINCIPAL ORDERS OF PRUSSIA, SWEDEN, AND POLAND, AND OF ALL THE ORDERS OF RUSSIA; &c. &c. COMPREHENDING ORIGINAL ANECDOTES OF CATHARINE THE SECOND. AND OF THE RUSSIAN COURT.; Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin, Field Marshall and Commander in Chief the Russian Army, Grand Admiral of the Fleets, Knight of the Principle Orders of Prussia, Sweden, and Poland and of All the Orders of Russia Original Anecdotes of Catharin
London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1812. Leather-bound. Octavo. Half-bound over marbled boards. Both front and rear covers detached. Frontis engraved portrait of Potemkin by J. Swaine. . 8-1/4 in. 256pp. Toning to textblock throughout, but overall, clean copy internally, except for a few occasional marginal bracketing in pencil. Some pages..... More