1854 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

Description

Early Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The third edition. Revised and enlarged.

Illustrated with a monochrome lithographic frontispiece, thirty-three monochrome engraved vignettes, one map plate and a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete. 

Laurence Oliphant's autobiographical account of his journey through Russia. Oliphant was a member of parliament and a British author and traveller. He left his law studies to travel in Russia, writing this work as a result. The work was written before the start of the Crimean war, with this later edition featuring an additional chapter with his views and remarks on the war in connection to his travels. 

In the publisher's original cloth.