DEMIDOFF, Anatole de, and [Denis] RAFFET.
Voyage dans la Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie.
Voyage dans la Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie.
Stock Code 94489
Lacrampe for Ernest Bourdin, Paris, 1840
Count Anatoliy Nikolaevich Demidov, Prince of San Donato (1812-70) launched in 1837 at his own expenses a scientific, chiefly geological, expedition to Ukraine and Crimea. He was accompanied in his extensive travel by the artist Denis Raffet, who richly illustrated the account - the 64 illustrations in the title refer to both the woodengravings in the text and plates together.
Tall octavo (27 x 17.5 cm). Half-title, woodengraved frontispiece on India paper, title, vii, 621, [3 incl. errata and table] pp., with 23 woodengraved plates after Raffet, all printed on India paper mounted and with tissue guards, and one page of sheet music, numerous woodengravings in text; some spotting and browning. Contemporary red polished calf over marbled boards by Bibolet, spine richly decorated in gilt marbled edges; rubbed, corners bumped.
Atabey 337 and Brunet II, 583; not in Blackmer.
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