The Character of the Russians

and a detailed history of Moscow, illustrated with numerous engravings. With a dissertation on the Russian Language and an appendix containing, tables, political, statistical, and historical (...), an essay about the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. Robert Lyall, M.D., T. Cadell, London and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. 4to, half leather, title on spine and gilt stamping, engraved frontispiece, hand-coloured, 28, CLIV, 639, (1) pp., the prints incl. 6 finely engraved and hand-coloured views (incl. the frontispiece and a folding print). As usual lacks the map of Moscow (torn out). Binding with signs of use, inside here and there insignificant stains outside the image. Rare.

The prints are all extensively described after the foreword and the content description on pp. 23-28.