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OLIPHANT, Laurence. 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.
New York: Redfield, 1854. First U.S. edition. (From the third London edition, so stated on title). 8vo., original green cloth, x, (11)-266, (6)pp.ads. With illustrations and two maps (one folding). Touch of wear to spine ends otherwise a near fine copy. Nerhood 242.
".....from St. Petersburg to Moscow and then down the Volga to enlighten the world on the menace of Russia. He describes places and people in an informative way, especially the long journey down the Volga river, with its peculiar means of transportation and the peoples along its banks." (Nerhood).
OLIPHANT, Laurence. 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. New York: Redfield, 1854. First U.S. edition. (From the third London edition, so stated on title). 8vo., original green cloth, x, (11)-266, (6)pp.ads. With illustrations and two maps (one folding). Touch of wear to spine ends otherwise a near fine copy. Nerhood 242.
".....from St. Petersburg to Moscow and then down the Volga to enlighten the world on the menace of Russia. He describes places and people in an informative way, especially the long journey down the Volga river, with its peculiar means of transportation and the peoples along its banks." (Nerhood).
