MONEY, A. and G.H. Sevastopol. Our Tent in the Crimea; and Wanderings in Sevastopol. London, Richard Bentley, 1856.
8vo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, ornamented all-over in blind; pp. x, [4], 443, large folding lithographic map by James Wyld; cloth a little darkened and marked, internally, apart from occasional light spotting, a very good copy, bookplate Charles Benson.
First edition of an uncommon title. 'Detailed description of the month-long excursion to the Crimea of the Money brothers, self-styled 'travelling gentlemen', between 11 August and mid-September 1855. The first part is written by "A" from their arrival until his departure due to dysentery on 1 September; the narrative is continued with much detail on the siege of Sevastopol by George, who leaves two weeks later' (Anthony Cross, In the Land of the Romanovs, p. 222). This book contains one of the first large-scale maps of the fortress and port of Sevastopol to be published.
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