[Rarebooks] FS: A TOUR THROUGH CRIMEA, 1802, with many illustrations

[Charles Agvent]

GUTHRIE, (Mrs. Maria). A TOUR PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1795-6, THROUGH THE 
TAURIDA, OR CRIMEA, THE ANTIENT KINGDOM OF BOSPHORUS, THE ONCE-POWERFUL 
REPUBLIC OF TAURIC CHERSON and all the other countries of the North 
Shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the Peace of Kainardgi and Jassy 
... Described in a Series of Letters to her Husband, the Editor, Matthew 
Guthrie... London: T. Cadell, Jun and W. Davies, 1802. First Edition. 
Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in 20th century tan buckram; xxiv, 446, [2] pages. 
Complete including errata and final ad leaf. Illustrated with a large 
folding engraved map serving as the frontispiece, a folding plan and 
view of the eruption of Koukuo Oba, 3 engraved plates, 8 wood-engraved 
plates of coins, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations of coins 
within the text. Mrs. Guthrie was the headmistress of a school in St. 
Petersburg for the education of the daughters of the Russian nobility. 
This work is based on letters sent by her to her husband, physician to 
the Imperial Corps of naval cadets. Owner signature of John Redman Coxe 
(1773-1864) in the gutter of the title page, physician and professor of 
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who had one of the largest 
libraries in the United States at the time, about 15,000 volumes. He 
worked side by side with his teacher, Dr. Benjamin Rush During the 
yellow fever epidemic in 1793 in Philadelphia. Moderate foxing; library 
bookplate and small stamp on the front pastedown with red ink stamps on 
the dedication page. No other library markings but for white numbers on 
the spine. Large folding map with several splits and a small piece 
detached but present. Binding firm. Good. (#020542)        $500

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