An Englishman in Russia as Napoleon saw it
Publication: J.J. Stockdale, London, 1815.
First edition of this classic travel account, here in attractive example in red morocco.
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Fine example of the first edition bound in richly gilt red morocco, an early issue. Plates include Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stralsund, Frauensberg, Tilsit, Cronstadt, Igiora a Village near St. Petersburg, a Flying Mountain (a helterskelter), Bronnitzi, women near Novogorod, the Kremlin, Borodino, Smolensk, Lithuanian jewesses and a view of Borisoff. These plates are accompanied by an interesting and informative text on local customs, history and so on, written as the author progressed along his route.
Provenance
William Strange (ex-libris to verso of upper fly leaf).
Bibliography
Abbey, Travel 15.
Item number
1826
Quarto (29.7 x 23.7 cm). Half-title, title, vii, 460 pp., with 20 hand-coloured plates (including the frontispiece), two maps, one full-paged uncoloured plate of Russian farming implements, and one text illustration, at least two plates with 1812 watermark.
Binding
Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt on spine and both boards, gilt edges.
Condition
Binding rebacked preserving spine, a bit rubbed at edges; the odd light spotting inside otherwise an appealing copy.
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