TRANSCAUCASIA BY BARON VON HAXTHAUSEN 1854 FIRST EDITION, LEATHER-BOUND Sketches of Nations & Races Between Black & Caspian Sea

TRANSCAUCASIA BY BARON VON HAXTHAUSEN 1854 FIRST EDITION, LEATHER-BOUND Sketches of Nations & Races Between Black & Caspian Sea

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[HAXTHAUSEN, Baron Von]. Transcaucasia. Sketches of the Nations and Races Between the Black Sea and the Caspian. With Illustrations by Graeb. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1854.

First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 140 x 40 mm.). Pp. xxiii, 448. Bound in handsome prize binding of half-calf, spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece in second compartment, gilt crest to upper cover, marbled page edges, marbled endpapers, half-title present, 8 colour plates, b&w engravings in the text, fold-out map of the Caucasus to the rear, extensive printed footnotes. Printed by John Edward Taylor, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Provenance: King's College prize plate to front pastedown and Raymond Jackson's ownership inscription to fep. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight, secure and square, the hinges intact. Some fading to covers and a little rubbing to extremities. Interior largely clean with a little offsetting to plates and very minor spotting. Scarce.

Notes: Rare first edition in English; translated from German of Baron von Haxthausen by J. E. Taylor from the manuscript of the author's "Transkaukasia."

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