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DEMIDOFF, Anatole de.
Denis Raffet.
Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie.
Account of an exploring expedition through Hungary, Wallachia (Romania), and Moldavia to southern Russia and the Crimea (Ukraine) in 1837 made by Russian capitalist and philanthropist Anatolii Demidoff in company with several French scientists, engineers, and savants. The appeal of the book was broad,- to capture the interest of "the military expert and the engineer, the captain and the simply curious like ourselves." The wild scenery and exotic architecture of the region are displayed; cities and villages alternate with rivers, plains, and mountains. Hungarian, Tartar, and gypsy life is shown with a vivid command of local colour.
- Published
- Paris: J. Claye for Ernest Bourdin, 1854.
- Plates
- 10
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: J. Claye for Ernest Bourdin, 1854.
- Ref
- 519
4to (27.5 x 19 cm). XIV including half-title and title 510 [1] pp. 2 folding maps, 27 plates including a portrait frontispieces by Lightfoot; 10 lithographs by Ruffault after Raffet coloured by hand and 16 wood-engravings, mostly after Raffet; tissue guards; numerous wood engravings in text; light browning to first and last pages. Later full green morocco; tooled blind decoration to boards; gilt titles to spine; raised bands; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; bloc starting at front hinge. A fine copy of this celebrated travel uncommon with hand-coloured plates. Count Anatoliy Nikolaevich Demidov, Prince of San Donato (1812-70), launched in 1837 at his own expense a scientific chiefly geological expedition to Ukraine and Crimea. He was accompanied in his extensive travel by the artist Denis Raffet who illustrated the account first published in 1840 and here in the second edition. Coloured plates in order: 1. Infanterie Hongroise, Grenadiers. 2. Dorabantz et Paysannes Valaques. 3. Postillons Moldaves. 4. Juifs Karaims (Odessa). 5. Israelites et Paysans Russes. 6. Jeunes filles et femmes Tatares. 7. Costumes Militaires Russes... 8. Armee Russe (1854).... 9. Mollahs Tatars. 10. Armee Turque (1854)...
