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A TOUR PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1795-6, THROUGH THE TAURIDA, OR CRIMEA, THE ANTIENT KINGDOM OF BOSPHORUS, THE ONCE-POWERFUL REPUBLIC OF TAURIC CHERSON and all the other countries of the North Shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the Peace of Kainardgi and Jassy ... Described in a Series of Letters to her Husband, the Editor, Matthew Guthrie...
by GUTHRIE, (Mrs. Maria)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate foxing; library bookplate and small stamp on the front pastedown with red ink stamps on the dedication page. No other l
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About This Item
London: T. Cadell, Jun and W. Davies, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate foxing; library bookplate and small stamp on the front pastedown with red ink stamps on the dedication page. No other library markings but for white numbers on the spine. Large folding map with several splits and a small piece detached but present. Binding firm. Good. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in 20th century tan buckram; xxiv, 446, [2] pages. Complete including errata and final ad leaf. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map serving as the frontispiece, a folding plan and view of the eruption of Koukuo Oba, 3 engraved plates, 8 wood-engraved plates of coins, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations of coins within the text. Mrs. Guthrie was the headmistress of a school in St. Petersburg for the education of the daughters of the Russian nobility. This work is based on letters sent by her to her husband, physician to the Imperial Corps of naval cadets. Owner signature of John Redman Coxe (1773-1864) in the gutter of the title page, physician and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who had one of the largest libraries in the United States at the time, about 15,000 volumes. He worked side by side with his teacher, Dr. Benjamin Rush During the yellow fever epidemic in 1793 in Philadelphia.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020542
- Title
- A TOUR PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1795-6, THROUGH THE TAURIDA, OR CRIMEA, THE ANTIENT KINGDOM OF BOSPHORUS, THE ONCE-POWERFUL REPUBLIC OF TAURIC CHERSON and all the other countries of the North Shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the Peace of Kainardgi and Jassy ... Described in a Series of Letters to her Husband, the Editor, Matthew Guthrie...
- Author
- GUTHRIE, (Mrs. Maria)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate foxing; library bookplate and small stamp on the front pastedown with red ink stamps on the dedication page. No other l
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Cadell, Jun and W. Davies
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1802
- Keywords
- 18th Century, Medicine, Illustrated Books, Travel, Crimea, Russia, Ukraine
- Bookseller catalogs
- 18th Century; Travel; Russia;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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