Louis É. Desbuissons: Carte des grandes voies de communication de l’Europe indiquant les chemins dee fer, les routes, les canaux et les lignes de paquebots a vapeur sul l’Océan, la Mediterraneée et la mer Noire depuis Saint Pétersburg jusqu’a Alexandrie et Odessa, Paris: Lemière 1862 Signature: Zh 305-4620 raro II Figures: Map (recto/verso); Details This …

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Albert Etienne de Montémont: Voyages Nouveaux par mer et par terre effectués ou publiés de 1837 a 1847 dans le diverses parties du monde, contenant la description de ces contrées, les moeurs, coutumes, gouvernements, cultes, productions, industrie, commerce, 5 vols., Paris: René 1847, vol. 5 (1847) Signature: FF 182 4470 raro IV Figures: Frontispiece; p. …

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Johann G. Kohl: Viaggi nella Russia Meridionale di G. G. Kohl, prima versione dal tedesco di Enrico Valtancoli Montazio, Firenze: Società editrice fiorentina 1842 Signature: Ff 180 4421 raro IV Figures: Frontispiece; p. 13 (L’Ucraina e la Nuova Russia); pp. 89–90 (Odessa) After his father’s death in 1830, when Johann Georg Kohl (1808–1878) was necessitated …

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Anatoly N. Demidoff: Viaggio nella Russia meridionale e nella Crimea, per l’Ungheria, la Moldavia e la Valachia, fatto nel 1837, Torino: Stabilimento tipografico Fontana 1841 Signature: FF 180 4413 raro V Figures: Frontispiece; p. 161; “Droschi a Odessa” (pp. 164-165); “Tragitto sul Mar Nero. Pacchetto a vapore il Pietro I” (pp.180-181) Anatoly Nikolayevich Demidov (1813–1870), …

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Charles V. Monin: Atlas universel de géographie. Ancienne & Moderne en 42 cartes, Paris: Hocquart, 1840 Signature: Zh 300-4320 raro VII  Figures: Frontispiece; Mappemond c. 1; Europe c. 2; Asie c. 16 Only two decades after lithography was invented, at the end of the 18th century, it was applied to cartography, which later led to …

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Josiah Conder: The Modern Traveler. A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical of the Various Countries of the Globe, 30 vols., London: James Duncan 1825–1830, vol. 17 (1830) Signature: Ff 182-4300/17 raro I Figures: Frontispiece; Map of Russia in Europe; pp. 221-223 The Modern Traveler, a non-fiction work by British writer Josiah Conder (1789–1855) spread over …

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