Voyage pittoresque en Russie. Suivi d'un voyage en Sibérie par M. R. Bourdier. Illustrations de MM. Rouargue, Outwaith et Kernot.

Lge 8vo; front. and 20 pl. protected with tissue guards (sl. foxing, occ. stains).

Publ. half blue shagreen, blind ruled blue buckram on covers, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (covers sl. rubbed).

First edition (?) of a travel account from Saint Petersburg to Caucasia by Finland, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, followed with a journey from St Petersburg to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Illustrated with 21 steel-engravings: frontispiece, 12 plates depicting topographical views of St Petersburg, Moscow, Astrakhan, etc. and 8 coloured plates showing local people. Vignette on title. By the journalist Ch. de Saint-Julien (1802-1869), librarian to the Rumyantsev Museum.