CAUCASUS -- HORSCHELT, Theodor (1829-1871). Kavkazskie Pokhodnye Risunki. [Field Sketches in the Caucasus.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1896. 2° (512 x 368mm). With the two printed leaves of captions, one in Russian, the other in French. 60 reproductions (c.320 x c.215mm), some of these lithographs, chromolithographs or photogravures, printed on india paper on blue or white mounts as issued, some with printed captions. (Some light mostly marginal wear, occasional light spotting, some plates with number added in the margin in manuscript.) Loose in 5 (of 6) original blue paper portfolios printed in red and black (some with tears at the spine fold, the number of the plates included in each part addedin manuscript on the front cover); in the remnant of contemporary cloth portfolio. Provenance: ?W. Schindler (pencilled note).

CAUCASUS -- HORSCHELT, Theodor (1829-1871). Kavkazskie Pokhodnye Risunki. [Field Sketches in the Caucasus.] St. Petersburg: Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1896. 2° (512 x 368mm). With the two printed leaves of captions, one in Russian, the other in French. 60 reproductions (c.320 x c.215mm), some of these lithographs, chromolithographs or photogravures, printed on india paper on blue or white mounts as issued, some with printed captions. (Some light mostly marginal wear, occasional light spotting, some plates with number added in the margin in manuscript.) Loose in 5 (of 6) original blue paper portfolios printed in red and black (some with tears at the spine fold, the number of the plates included in each part addedin manuscript on the front cover); in the remnant of contemporary cloth portfolio. Provenance: ?W. Schindler (pencilled note).

FIRST EDITION of Horschelt's Field Sketches. Horschelt made these sketches between 1858 and 1863 when he fought on the Russian side in the Caucasus War, having volunteered to join the staff of General Baryatinski. It was for drawings of this period that Horschelt was elected to the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. Together with, laid in: a photographic portrait of a Dagestani military leader, inscribed to 'Adolf Karlovich', Berlin 1922; and a typsecript transcription of Horschelt's biography from Karl von Seeger's Imam Shamil.