Voyage pittoresque en Russie. Suivi d'un voyage en Sibérie par M. R. Bourdier. Illustrations de MM. Rouargue, Outwaith et Kernot.

Paris, Belin-Leprieur & Morizot, [1854]

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Large 8vo (n.c.; some spots, mostly in margins).

Contemp. quarter red shagreen, percaline boards, spine with raised bands (joints sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped). Orig. ill. wrappers preserved.

First edition (?) of a travel account from Saint Petersburg to Caucasia passing through Finland, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, followed with a journey from St Petersburg to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Illustrated with steel-engravings: frontispiece, b/w pl. depicting topographical views and coloured plates showing local people. Vignette on title. By the journalist Ch. de Saint-Julien (1802-1869), librarian to the Rumyantsev Museum.

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