Bernard, Jan Frederik (d1752)

A Relation of Grand Tartary, drawn up from the Original Memoirs of the Suedes, who were Prisoners in Siberia, during the War between Sueden and Russia. Translated from the French, printed at Amsterdam 1737. [By William Farrington.] Translator's holograph and unpublished MS. Title within red and black rules. This MS. is a translation of the 'Relation de la Grande Tartarie dressée sur les mémoires originales des Suédois prisonniers en Sibérie'. This was published by J. F. Bernard, a learned bookseller of Amsterdam, as part of his `Recueil de voyages au Nord' 10 vols. 1715-1738. According to the entry in Hoeffer's `Nouvelle Biographie Générale', Vol. V, 1866, Bernard was himself the author. Farrington's translation is apparently unrecorded. Armorial engraved book-plate of John Grubb.

1738

5 ll.462 pp.+4 bl.ll. 4to. 181/2x141/2cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1935.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).