[Rarebooks] FS: A Russian's View of America in the early 1800s, illustrated, price greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

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Price reduced:     Was $175,      Now $85

YARMOLINSKY, Abraham [SVININ, Paul]. PICTURESQUE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA 1811, 1812, 1813 BEING A MEMOIR ON PAUL SVININ RUSSIAN 
DIPLOMATIC OFFICER, ARTIST, AND AUTHOR CONTAINING COPIOUS EXCERPTS FROM 
HIS ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS IN AMERICA WITH FIFTY-TWO REPRODUCTIONS OF 
WATER COLORS IN HIS OWN SKETCH-BOOK. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 
1930. First Edition in English. Folio (10-1/4" x 13") in publisher's 
cloth with dustwrapper. The first description of the United States by a 
Russian traveler. Only 1000 copies printed. Illustrated with a color 
frontispiece, a portrait of Svinin, a facsimile of music for "The Death 
Song of the Cherokee Indians," and 51 full-page B&W plates from his 
sketch-book. Near Fine in a soiled, Very Good dustwrapper of this 
handsome book. (#001733)        $85.00

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