Travel, early 19th century.- La Messeliere (Count de) Voyage...
Travel, early 19th century.- La Messeliere (Count de) Voyage a Pétersbourg, half title, minor spotting, contemporary speckled calf, spine tooled in gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, [Hamilton Palace II, 1471], Panckoucke, Paris, 1803; Ancelot (Jacques Arsène François Polycarpe) Six mois en Russie. Lettres écrites a M. X. – B. Saintines, first edition, second issue (first, the year before), half title, woodcut device on title, publisher's catalogue at rear, some spotting, half calf, label of bookseller Du Macasin de H. Villet to front pastedown, a. e. y. Dondey-Dupré Père et Fils, Paris, 1827; Laveau (Comte de) Description de Moscou, 2 vol., second edition, 6 folding tables, one large folding lithograph map of Moscow with the 17 municipalities, 6 engraved plates (including frontispieces) with captions in Russian, showing views of the Kremlin, St. Vasily's Church, palaces, the military hospital etc., one text illustration, armorial bookplate of Robert John Verney, with shelfmark, ownership inscription to half titles, half green calf, edges sprinkled red, extremities rubbed, Auguste Semen, Moscow, 1835; with Saint-Julien (Charles De)] Guide du Voyageur a Saint-Pétersbourg, folding lithograph map, hand-coloured, 10 plates, some spotting, original blue printed wrappers, joints cracked, front cover and pp. 1-23 coming loose, rubbed, soiled, Bellizard, St. Petersburg, 1840, 8vo (5) *** The work of the French dramatist Ancelot (1794-1854) is an account in the form of 44 letters to to his friend Xavier Saintines in Paris. Ancelot travelled in 1826 to the Russian Empire accompanying Marshal Marmont as guest at the coronation of Tsar Nichols I. This journey inspired Ancelot’s novel ‘Olga ou l'Orpheline Russe’ (1828).
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Travel, early 19th century.- La Messeliere (Count de) Voyage a Pétersbourg, half title, minor spotting, contemporary speckled calf, spine tooled in gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, [Hamilton Palace II, 1471], Panckoucke, Paris, 1803; Ancelot (Jacques Arsène François Polycarpe) Six mois en Russie. Lettres écrites a M. X. – B. Saintines, first edition, second issue (first, the year before), half title, woodcut device on title, publisher's catalogue at rear, some spotting, half calf, label of bookseller Du Macasin de H. Villet to front pastedown, a. e. y. Dondey-Dupré Père et Fils, Paris, 1827; Laveau (Comte de) Description de Moscou, 2 vol., second edition, 6 folding tables, one large folding lithograph map of Moscow with the 17 municipalities, 6 engraved plates (including frontispieces) with captions in Russian, showing views of the Kremlin, St. Vasily's Church, palaces, the military hospital etc., one text illustration, armorial bookplate of Robert John Verney, with shelfmark, ownership inscription to half titles, half green calf, edges sprinkled red, extremities rubbed, Auguste Semen, Moscow, 1835; with Saint-Julien (Charles De)] Guide du Voyageur a Saint-Pétersbourg, folding lithograph map, hand-coloured, 10 plates, some spotting, original blue printed wrappers, joints cracked, front cover and pp. 1-23 coming loose, rubbed, soiled, Bellizard, St. Petersburg, 1840, 8vo (5) *** The work of the French dramatist Ancelot (1794-1854) is an account in the form of 44 letters to to his friend Xavier Saintines in Paris. Ancelot travelled in 1826 to the Russian Empire accompanying Marshal Marmont as guest at the coronation of Tsar Nichols I. This journey inspired Ancelot’s novel ‘Olga ou l'Orpheline Russe’ (1828).
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