Lot no. 124
DEMIDOFF (Anatole de). Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie. Paris, Ernest Bourdin, 1854. Large in-8, plum half-chagrin, imperial Russian eagle and emblem gilt in the centre of the boards, spine decorated, gilt edges (Period binding). Second edition, decorated with a portrait of Tsar Nicholas I engraved by Lightfoot, 16 plates and numerous vignettes in the text after Auguste Raffet, 10 coloured plates of costumes, one of music and two folding maps.
Copy in publisher's binding with the Russian coat of arms.
Slight rubbing, some foxing and slightly yellowed plates.
Vicaire, III, 168.
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