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[VERDEREVSKY, Eugeny Aleksandrovich]. Captivity of Two Russian Princesses in the Caucasus. London: Smith, Elder, 1857. 8° (199 x 115mm), engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map and plan. (Frontispiece slightly soiled and browned at edges, title torn along inner margin and almost detached, occasional marginal soiling.) Original hard-grained red cloth (rebacked preserving original spine, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: Skelton (signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Sutherland Edwards. Atabey 1279 (this copy); not in Blackmer.
[FORSYTH, James Bell (1802-1869)]. A Few Months in the East: or, A Glimpse of the Red, the Dead, and the Black Seas. Quebec: John Lovell and London: Sampson, Low, 1861. 8° (213 x 133mm), 4 tinted lithographed plates. Original brown cloth (a little frayed). Provenance: 20th Lord Borthwick (1867-1910, presentation inscription on half-title, dated 30 May 1904, by a later J. Bell Forsyth; recipient's bookplate; ownership inscription on front blank; scoring and footnote on pp. 5 & 175). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Atabey 451 (this copy); not in Blackmer. With 22 other English works in 26 vols, late 19th or early 20th century, most in original cloth, all relating to the east. (28)
[FORSYTH, James Bell (1802-1869)]. A Few Months in the East: or, A Glimpse of the Red, the Dead, and the Black Seas. Quebec: John Lovell and London: Sampson, Low, 1861. 8° (213 x 133mm), 4 tinted lithographed plates. Original brown cloth (a little frayed). Provenance: 20th Lord Borthwick (1867-1910, presentation inscription on half-title, dated 30 May 1904, by a later J. Bell Forsyth; recipient's bookplate; ownership inscription on front blank; scoring and footnote on pp. 5 & 175). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Atabey 451 (this copy); not in Blackmer. With 22 other English works in 26 vols, late 19th or early 20th century, most in original cloth, all relating to the east. (28)