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RUSSIA-COLOR PLATE] PALLAS, PETER SIMON Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire... London: John Stockdale, 18... ... London: John Stockdale, 1812. Second edition. Two volumes, contemporary diced russia, rebacked. 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29 x 23 cm); xxiv, 552 pp., with 25 largely hand-colored plates (includes one map) and 13 colored vignettes; xxxii, 524 pp., with 26 (of 27) plates, largely hand-colored (includes one map), 14 colored vignettes, with three folding maps at end. Binding largely worn, internally quite fresh but lacking one plate, thus sold with all faults. Sold with a copy of John Dundas Cochran's Narrative of a Journey through Russian and Siberian Tartary, the 1824 second edition, bindings defective. The first title is Abbey Travel 222. C