THE CHARACTER OF THE RUSSIANS, and a Detailed History of Moscow. With a dissertation on the Russian language, and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; LYALL, Robert. M.D. tick

TITLE CONTINUED: a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia. FIRST EDITION 1823. 4to, approximately 280 x 220 mm, 11 x 8½ inches, 23 engraved plates, 13 aquatint hand-coloured plates, all clean, 1 uncoloured aquatint, 9 black and white engraved plates, 3 folding, plus large folding engraved map of Moscow, all suffering from offset, plus 4 woodcuts in the text, pages: lacks half-title, [3] 6-28, [2] - subtitle, [i] ii-cliv, [2] - subtitle, [1] 2-639, [1] - Errata, Appendix and index after page 528 (our collation is the same as found in Abbey), bound in modern full maroon morocco, gilt lettering and extra gilt decoration to spine, gilt and blind decoration to covers, new endpapers, plain cloth slipcase. Folding plan has 1 small repair to inner margin and a 6 inch closed tear with old repair, not showing through on the blank side, not affecting the image, all of the black and white engravings including the plan are browned from offset from the pages also affecting the page either side, pale offset to facing pages from colour plates, all other pages are clean. A very good copy. See: J. R.Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Volume 1, No. 227, pages 201-202. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.