Cossack rare books

First French edition, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); engraved frontispiece of Cossack soldiers, 94pp., numbering in ink to corner of each page; 19th century quarter green calf over marbled boards, flat spine gilt ruled, red morocco label with gilt title, a fine copy.

Oil on canvas. Framed (105.5 x 82 cm).

First editions, 2 vols (all published); 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm) light traces of tape to inner margin of several pp. in vol I.; publisher's cloth, colour of binding of vol.I and vol.II differs as published.