Travel Memoirs
- Histoire Primitive des Peuples de la Russie avec une Exposition complete de Toutes les Nations, locales, nationales et traditionelles, necessaires a l'intelligence du quatrieme livre d'Herodote (St. Petersbourg: Imprime a l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1802)
- Voyage dans les steppes d'Astrakhan et du Caucase (Paris, 1829).
- Voyage en Turquie et en Egypte (1788; Polish translation by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Podróz do Turek i Egiptu, 1789).
- Voyage dans l’Empire de Maroc (1792)
Modern editions have appeared as follows:
- Voyages en Turquie et en Egypte, en Hollande, au Maroc (Paris: Fayard, 1980; new edition, Phébus, 1991)
- Voyage au Caucase et en Chine (Paris: Fayard, 1980)
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