The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852 with a Voyage down the Volga, and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks

Oliphant, Laurence

William Blackwood and Sons, 1854

[A View of Russia before the Crimean War] Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked with modern spine. All edges marbled. Marbled end sheets. Contemporary mounted signature of C.G. Murdoch, Buckhurst. Generally clean, unmarked pages. XIV, 380 p.  Numerous illustrations in the text, tinted lithographed frontispiece of the Chinese Quarter in Novgorod, and two maps, a folding map of the author's route, and a map of the Crimea; 23 cm. Note: 3rd edition, 1854 printing.  Abbey, Travel, 233 (citing 1st ed of 1853).  Travelogue from St. Petersburg via Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, along the Volga via Kazan to the Crimea to the Black Sea and via Odessa on the Danube to Belgrade.