UKHTOMSKY, Esper Esperovich., Prince. Voyage en Orient de Son Altesse Impériale le Césarevitch. Volume 1 (of 2). Translated by Louis Leger. Paris: Charles Delagrave, 1893. 2° (370 x 275mm). Portrait frontispiece on china paper, colour-printed map of Egypt, and 55 plates after N. Karazin, and illustrations throughout. Publisher's original green cloth, spine and upper side blocked in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: C. von Platen (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the first French edition of this richly illustrated account of Tsarevich Nicholas's journey to the east, reusing Karazin's fine original illustrations.
UKHTOMSKY, Esper Esperovich., Prince. Voyage en Orient de Son Altesse Impériale le Césarevitch. Volume 1 (of 2). Translated by Louis Leger. Paris: Charles Delagrave, 1893. 2° (370 x 275mm). Portrait frontispiece on china paper, colour-printed map of Egypt, and 55 plates after N. Karazin, and illustrations throughout. Publisher's original green cloth, spine and upper side blocked in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: C. von Platen (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the first French edition of this richly illustrated account of Tsarevich Nicholas's journey to the east, reusing Karazin's fine original illustrations.
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