DÉMIDOFF (Anatole). - Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et l - Lot 3

DÉMIDOFF (Anatole). - Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécuté en 1837, -- Voyage pittoresque et archéologique en Russie exécuté en 1839. Paris, Gihaut Frères, s. d. [1838-1848, 1842]. Together 2 volumes in-folio, half calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). The only albums of these trips to southern Russia, organized at Count Demidoff's expense, whose plates constitute a precious ethnological document. - 92 lithographed plates on chine collé by Auguste RAFFET, of 100 (numbered 1 to 17, 19 to 61, 69 to 100). Nine plates bear intermediate titles: - Hungary, Danube 1837" (plate 2), - "Wallachia. 1837" (pl. 9), - "Moldavia. 1837" (pl. 20), - "Southern Russia. Bessarabia." (pl. 25), - "Crimea Part 1" (pl. 31), - "Vosnessensk Camp. 1837" (pl. 55), - "Crimea Part 2" (pl. 69), - "Constantinople and Smyrna" (pl. 81), - "Portraits of the Members of the Scientific Expedition to Southern Russia" (pl. 88, including those of Démidoff and Raffet). Plates 18 62 to 68 are unbound in this copy, as are the 64 pp. of explanatory text. -- 48 lithographed and tinted plates by André DURAND, of 100 (numbered 1 to 27, 29, 31 to 36, 38 to 41, 44 to 50, 52, 60 62). Boards 28, 30, 37, 42, 43, 51, 53 to 59, 61 63 to 100 are not bound in this copy. Bindings damaged; heavy foxing on several plates. Brunet, II, 583-584; Carteret, III, 197; Vicaire, III, 167-168.