TELFER, J. Buchan. The Crimea and Transcaucasia. Being the Narrative of a Journey in the Kouban, in Gouria, Georgia, Armenia, Ossety, Imeritia, Swannety, and Mingrelia, and in the Tauric Range. Second edition. London: Henry S. King & Co. 1877 and 1876.
Two volumes, 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt and black; pp. xx, 297; xii, 293, 18 (publisher's catalogue); wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps; binding of volume two with some wear and restorations, this volume as well with light marginal spotting to plates; otherwise good.
Volume one second edition and a presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author, volume II in first edition. "A three years' residence in the South of Russia, afforded the author the opportunity of visiting the Crimea and Transcaucasia upon two occasions" (Preface). Drawing on his experiences from these visits, Telfer offers an account of the Crimea and of the regions between the Black and Azov seas.
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