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The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow. by Robert LYALL

Creator: Robert Lyall Flock
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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LYALL, Robert.

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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...

Stock Code 114088
London, T. Cadell; W. Blackwood, 1823

Current price$5,614.00
A nice example of an important work, finely coloured by hand and illustrated after drawings by Lavrov, showing Russian peasants and many atmospheric views of the Moscow Kremlin; it also includes a large folding plan and panorama of the city.

Lyall, a botanist and a traveller, claimed that he had spent some of the best years of his life in Russia. Having studied medicine, he practised as a junior doctor in St Petersburg and later lived in Ostrov, near Moscow. The work includes a catalogue of plants and edible mushrooms found in the Moscow area, an essay on Russian architecture and an account of the 1812 Fire of Moscow during the occupation by Napoleon.

First edition; 4to (28.5 x 23.5 cm); 23 engraved plates, some folding, including 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Edward Finden after Lavrov, a folding plan of Moscow by Mutlow, 2 wood engraved illustrations in text, armorial bookplate and discreet bookbinders ticket to front pastedown, a touch of offsetting from a few of the plates otherwise clean and tight internally; later half calf, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt in five compartments, all edges speckled red, boards a little rubbed and scuffed, hinges cracked but firm, otherwise a very a good copy; 28, [2], cliv, [2], 639, [1]pp.

Abbey (Travel), 227; Prideaux 228, 343.

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Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	19th Century
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	114088
Incollect Reference #:	775104

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