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BELIAVSKII, Frants Mikhailovich. Poezdka k Ledovitomu Moriu. [Journey to the Arctic Ocean.] Moscow: at the Press of the Lazarev Institute of Eastern Languages, 1833. 8° (217 x 130mm). Hand-coloured frontispiece, additional engraved title, 3 hand-coloured folding plates by Zheren, and one folding engraved plate of snowflakes. (Spotting and some soiling in the text, one coloured plate with some foxing, engraved pate with tears and some old repairs.) Contemporary Russian green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind and centred with a large architectural design blocked in gilt, edges gilt, pink moiré silk endpaper, edges gilt (light wear). Provenance: K. Shmataev (signature in an early hand).
BELIAVSKII, Frants Mikhailovich. Poezdka k Ledovitomu Moriu. [Journey to the Arctic Ocean.] Moscow: at the Press of the Lazarev Institute of Eastern Languages, 1833. 8° (217 x 130mm). Hand-coloured frontispiece, additional engraved title, 3 hand-coloured folding plates by Zheren, and one folding engraved plate of snowflakes. (Spotting and some soiling in the text, one coloured plate with some foxing, engraved pate with tears and some old repairs.) Contemporary Russian green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind and centred with a large architectural design blocked in gilt, edges gilt, pink moiré silk endpaper, edges gilt (light wear). Provenance: K. Shmataev (signature in an early hand).

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BELIAVSKII, Frants Mikhailovich. Poezdka k Ledovitomu Moriu. [Journey to the Arctic Ocean.] Moscow: at the Press of the Lazarev Institute of Eastern Languages, 1833. 8° (217 x 130mm). Hand-coloured frontispiece, additional engraved title, 3 hand-coloured folding plates by Zheren, and one folding engraved plate of snowflakes. (Spotting and some soiling in the text, one coloured plate with some foxing, engraved pate with tears and some old repairs.) Contemporary Russian green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind and centred with a large architectural design blocked in gilt, edges gilt, pink moiré silk endpaper, edges gilt (light wear). Provenance: K. Shmataev (signature in an early hand).

FIRST EDITION, IN A HANDSOME RUSSIAN ROMANTIQUE BINDING, with moiré endpapers, and finely hand-coloured plates. Beliavskii reports on his journey to Western Siberia, his encounters with the Ostiak and Samoyedic peoples, their customs including Shamanism, and language, flora and fauna. The illustrations also include a plate of various snow crystal structures. Obol'ianinov 157.