GAMBA, Jacques François (1763-1833). Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale. Paris: C.J. Trouvé, 1826. Atlas vol. only, 2° (338 x 252mm). 60 lithographic and engraved plates and maps, of which 34 hand-coloured. (Light staining in the title margins.) 20th-century calf-backed boards, spine gilt. Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo Palace Library (title stamp).

GAMBA, Jacques François (1763-1833). Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale. Paris: C.J. Trouvé, 1826. Atlas vol. only, 2° (338 x 252mm). 60 lithographic and engraved plates and maps, of which 34 hand-coloured. (Light staining in the title margins.) 20th-century calf-backed boards, spine gilt. Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo Palace Library (title stamp).

FIRST EDITION. The atlas volume of Gamba's journey along the Black Sea littoral and into the Caucasus with the stamp of the Russian Imperial Library at Tsarskoe Selo Palace. Gamba, French consul at Tiflis, had been charged by the Duc de Richelieu to develop Black Sea and trans-Caucasus trade routes. The costume plates, after Chopin, include Persians and Armenians, as well as Georgians and Circassians. Atabey 475; Brunet II, 1473; Colas 1172; Lipperheide Kaa 45.