Russia
DEMIDOFF, Anatole de.
Voyage dans la Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie.
J. Claye for Ernest Bourdin, Paris, 1854. Second edition. 4to. XIV-511 pp., 27 plates including 10 in colour, 2 folding maps; light browning to first and last pages. Later full green morocco, blind decoration to covers, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
FINE COPY OF THIS CELEBRATED TRAVEL, UNCOMMON WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES. Count Anatoliy Nikolaevich Demidov, Prince of San Donato (1812-70) launched in 1837 at his own expenses a scientific, chiefly geological, expedition to the Ukraine and Crimea. He was accompanied in his extensive travel by the artist Denis Raffet, who illustrated the account first published in 1840.
Price: £ 850
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