Folio (40 x 26.2 cm). 43 leaves with full-page drawings in pencil, ink, and gouache with English captions and some text paper watermarked 1817 and 1821; very occasional light offset of colour and spotting. Recent red half calf over marbled boards; gilt rules to covers; flat spine gilt in compartments. Good condition. Missing plate # 20 / # 38 / # 43. Coloured plates in order: 1. Bohemienne parcourant le Russie / Paysanne de Riga. 1824. 2. A Woman of Arsamas / Wife of a Russian Merchant / Greek of Astrachan. 1824. 3. Paysan Russe en Voyage / Paysan de Riga. 1827. 4. A Laplander. 1821. 5. A Woman of Lapland. 6. A Peasant of Finland. 7. A Woman of Finland in Holiday Dress. 8. A Female Tschermiss. 9. A Female Tschermiss in her Summer Dress. 10. A Female Peasant of Ingria. 11. A Mordvin Woman of the Erzianian Tribe. 12. A Tschouvachian Woman. 13. A Female Votiak. 14. An Ostiak of the Og. 15. A Tartar of Kazan. 16. A Female Tartar of Kazan. 17. A Female of the Nogai tribe of Tartars. 18. A Bukharian of Siberia. 19. A Katschintzian Tartar Girl. 20. A Kabardian of Mount Caucasus. 21. A Female Karbardian. 22. A Female Baschkirran. 23. A Female Kirghis. 24. A Teleutan Tartar Female of Kousnetzk. 25. A Teleutan Girl of Kousnetzk. 26. A Yakut in his Hunting Dress. 27. A Female Yakut. 28. A Samoyede. 29. A Female Samoyede. 30. A Tongusian. 31. A Tongusian Priest. 32. A Kamtschadale. 33. A Woman of Kamtschatka. 34. A Kamtschatka in her Holiday Dress. 35. A Female Koziak. 36. A Tschutskian in armour with his Wife. 37. An Aleutian in his Winter Dress. 38. A Kalmuc Tartar with his Gun & Whip / A Kalmuc Priest, or Gellong. 39. A Kalmuc Housewife & girl. 40. A Circassian of distinction in his domestic dress with a Princess of the Nation. 41. Two Ingushians. 42. The Wife of a Cossac of the Don and a Girl of Tscherkask. 43. A Nogais Tartar Lady of Rank in the centre is a Princess of the Nation & an enslaved woman.