The Character of the Russians and a Detailed History of Moscow. With a dissertation on the Russian language, and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow.
London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823.
Price: $7,000.00
About the item
First edition, with half-title. With half-title. 23 plates including 13 colored aquatints (one folding) and one uncolored aquatint, 9 line-engravings (3 folding), one large folding engraved plan of Moscow and two wood-engravings in text. Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode. 28, [ii], cliv, [ii], 639, [1, errata]. 4to. Neatly rebound to style in half calf and marbled boards, edges marbled. Signed on front free endpapers by famous Russian Lepidopterist Andrei Avinoff. A handsome copy, some foxing, crease in title-page. Abbey Travel 227.
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