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LOT 670
€120,00 - €240,00

[Russia] Cochrane, J.D. Reize te voet door het Russische Rijk en Siberie;

voorafgegaan door eene beschouwing van het karakter en de zeden der Russen, door R. Lyall, en eene geschiedkundige inleiding van den vertaler. Delft, printed by the brothers Giunta d'Albani for the widow J. Allart, 1826. 2 vols. VIII,448; XII,376 p. W. lithogr. frontisp. and 2 fold. tables, orig. limp boards w. letterpress title and vol. numbers on spine. Frontisp. waterst. in blank outer corners (also vaguely visible in lower margin of front cover). Spines sl. sunned. A complete copy in the original, uncut state, preserved in the rare plain publisher's binding.

Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe 80; Saalmink, p. 407; not in Tiele. A Dutch translation of Cochrane's 'Narrative of a pedestrian journey' (1824), preceded by an abridged Dutch version of Robert Lyall's noteworthy 'Character of the Russians' (1823). Cochrane travelled by Paris and Berlin to Siberia, all the way to Okhotsk and Kamchatka.

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