impressively bound in full green morocco extra gilt
DEMIDOFF, Anatole de & RAFFET [Denis].
Voyage dans la Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie.
Lacrampe for Ernest Bourdin, Paris, 1841.
In 1837 Count Anatoliy Nikolaevich Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870), launched a geological expedition to Ukraine and Crimea at his own expense. He was accompanied ion his travels by the artist Denis Raffet, who illustrated Demidoff's account.
The present copy seems to belong to a rare 1841 reissue of the 1840 first edition, and is identical to the 1840 edition in every way, including the errata. This 1841 second issue is not mentioned in the usual bibliographies, which date the second edition (with different pagination) from 1854.
Tall 8vo (26 x 16.7 cm); half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece on India paper, title, vii, 621, [3](errata & table)pp., with 23 wood-engraved plates after Raffet, all printed on India paper mounted and with tissue guards, one page of sheet music, numerous wood engravings in text; some occasional spotting, a bit browned towards end; contemporary green morocco by Boutigny (with label), boards with richly gilt floral ornaments and Russian double-headed eagles, flat spine titled and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers; spine slightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped.
Cf. Atabey 337 (1840 issue); Brunet II, 583; not in Blackmer.
Stock code 90869
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Voyage dans la Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie.
BOURRIT, Marc-Theodore.
Nouvelle description générale et particulière des glaciers,
1787.
One of the pioneers of alpinism and alpine painting, Bourrit (1739-1819) accompanied de Saussure on his first ascents of the Alps.
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[UKRAINE]. BOSSOLI, Carlo (illustrator).
The Beautiful Scenery and Chief Places of Interest throughout the Crimea.
1856.
Celebrated fine views of the Crimea, for which Carlo Bossoli is now mainly known.
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