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
by Oliphant, Laurence
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh, Scotland: Blackwood, 1854. 4th edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Good. 8 vo. Good in brown, blindstamped original cloth (some rubbing, soiling, bumping to cloth/extremities). Gilt camel team pulling wagon on front cover. Frontispiece. 33 in-text illustrations. Full-page map of The Crimea mid-book, plus fold-out map of Russia at rear, showing the author's route 380pp + booksellers catalog. Oliphant (1829-88), South African-born English novelist, war correspondent and mystic. Noted for his reportage of the Crimean, Italian and Franco-Prussian wars; also noted for his travels to the Far East and America. From the third London edition.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82816
- Title
- 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
- Author
- Oliphant, Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th edition, revised and enlarged
- Publisher
- Blackwood
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Date Published
- 1854
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...