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LYALL, Robert (1790-1831). The Character of the Russians and a detailed History of Moscow. London: T. Cadell and Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1823.
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LYALL, Robert (1790-1831). The Character of the Russians and a detailed History of Moscow. London: T. Cadell and Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1823.
4o (267 x 215 mm). Half-title. 23 plates including 13 colored aquatints (one folding) and one uncolored aquatint, 9 line-engravings (3 folding), one large folding engraved plan of Moscow and two wood-engravings in text. (Engraved plates offset to facing pages, covers detached, spine chipped, otherwise a clean copy.) Contemporary calf gilt.
FIRST EDITION of a richly illustrated account of the history and architecture of Moscow. It features delicate hand-colored aquatint views of the Kremlin by Edward Finden after Lavrof and a folding panorama (261 x 440 mm) which gives a "general front view" of the royal palace from the river Moskva. Lyall had practiced medicine there, and adds a catalogue of plants found in the vicinity of Moscow, an essay on Russian architecture and an account of the burning of Moscow by Napoleon in 1814. Abbey Travel 227.
4o (267 x 215 mm). Half-title. 23 plates including 13 colored aquatints (one folding) and one uncolored aquatint, 9 line-engravings (3 folding), one large folding engraved plan of Moscow and two wood-engravings in text. (Engraved plates offset to facing pages, covers detached, spine chipped, otherwise a clean copy.) Contemporary calf gilt.
FIRST EDITION of a richly illustrated account of the history and architecture of Moscow. It features delicate hand-colored aquatint views of the Kremlin by Edward Finden after Lavrof and a folding panorama (261 x 440 mm) which gives a "general front view" of the royal palace from the river Moskva. Lyall had practiced medicine there, and adds a catalogue of plants found in the vicinity of Moscow, an essay on Russian architecture and an account of the burning of Moscow by Napoleon in 1814. Abbey Travel 227.