NICOLAI (NIKOLAEVICH) KARAZINE - DU VOLGA AU NIL DANS LE AIRS - SOUVENIRS D’UN ÉCHASSIER

Librairie de Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1890, 224p., full-plate and within text a total of 72 gravures, 29.5x22 cm, in the publisher's decorative percaline binding, gilded page edges, this book was given by the Municipality of Paris as a student award, therefore gilded emblem of Paris Municipality on the cover. Label with the awarded student’s name on the inside of the front cover.

The famous travel book, in its magnificent binding, of the former Russian officer, writer and painter Karazine, about the migration from the Volga in the north to the Nile in the south through the eyes of a crane. Being on the route, part of the work takes place in Ottoman lands and Istanbul.

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