Voyage de Moscou à Vienne, par Odessa, Constantinople, Bucharest et Hermanstadt ; ou lettres adressées à Jules Griffith

First edition with a lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author by Engelmann (cf. Quérard IV, p. 424.)

Contemporary fawn half sheep over boards with small vellum corners, smooth spine richly decorated in gilt within compartments, red sheep lettering-piece, green paper-covered boards, yellow edges.

Restorations to the spine, a small loss in the right margin of one compartment, minor rubbing to the spine.

Light foxing.

Count de Lagarde was a member of the Royal Society of Warsaw, the Academy of Naples, and the Literary Society of the city of Cracow.

Having emigrated to Austria and Poland during the Reign of Terror, he undertook the journey from Moscow to Vienna in 1811, returning to France after 1815 before eventually settling in London.

A man of letters, he was also the author of a collection of poems, a work on Bavaria, and several romances, including one devoted to the death of Prince Poniatowski.

An uncommon work, prohibited at the time by Russian censorship.