Petr Aleksandrovitch TCHIKHATCHEFF [Petr Aleksandrovič ČIHAČEV]
Espagne, Algérie et Tunisie. Lettres à Michel Chevalier
Carlos Bailly-Baillière • J.B. Baillière • Adolphe Jourdan|Paris • Madrid • Algiers 1880|17.5 x 27 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Lechard after Gibert [Constantine], and a folding map bound at the end (cf. Tailliart 58. Palau 328 502).
A few minor spots of foxing.
Publisher’s binding in full red cloth, spine with black and gilt oriental-inspired decorations, blind-stamped frames on covers, red endpapers slightly faded at the margins, all edges gilt.
Only French edition, highly regarded, of this epistolary account of a journey undertaken in 1878 by the Russian geologist and naturalist Tchihatcheff (1808–1890), whose main interest lay in the natural sciences but who also addressed economic matters, a field dear to hi
€600