Bernard J Shapero : Rare Books

Russia

PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive.

Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus.


Richard Bentley & Sons, London 1881. 8vo. x, 370 pp. Original blue cloth gilt, pictorial gilt upper cover, all edges gilt.

Fine copy of the first edition. The author, the British vice-consul at Ketch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains - bird, boar, bear, and antelope. Considerable details on the terrain and peoples. Czech, Asian, p161.

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Stock Number: 67619