TRAVEL - Laurence OLIPHANT (1829-88). The Russian Shores of the Black Sea, London, 1853, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, 2 engraved maps, original pictorial cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. With various other travel and topographical works in 18 vols. (19)

TRAVEL - Laurence OLIPHANT (1829-88).  The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga, and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853. 8vo (221 x 140mm). Half title, tinted lithographed frontispiece by W. and K. Johnston after the author, 2 engraved maps, one folding, wood-engraved vignettes, 8-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original brown pictorial cloth gilt (skilfully rebacked preserving original spine, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 233; Cat. Russica O328; Nerhood To Russia and Return: An Annotated Bibliography 242. With various other travel and topographical works in 18 vols. including Nathan Pinkney's Travels through the South of France ... Second edition (London, 1814, lacks map, modern vellum-backed cloth), John L. Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (New York, 1856, 2 vols., plates including large folding panorama, original brown cloth, rebacked preserving original spines), J. M. W. Turner's Liber Fluviorum; or, River Scenery in France (London, 1857, plates, original cloth gilt), James Emerson Tennant's Ceylon. An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical ... Third Edition (London, 1859, 2 vols., original green pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spines, ex-library copy), Frederick Augustus Burnaby's On Horseback through Asia Minor (London, 1877, 2 vols., 2 folding maps ([?]only, of 3), original green pictorial cloth gilt, vol. II neatly rebacked preserving original spine, extremities lightly rubbed, ex-library copy, vol. one a FIRST EDITION, vol. II a second edition, the vols. with different provenances), Edward Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 ... Fourth Edition (London, 1893, later morocco-backed cloth, ex-library copy), Fridtjof Nansen's "Farthest North" (London, 1897, 2 vols., plates, modern black half morocco gilt, FIRST EDITION), Neil Munro's The Clyde. River and Firth (London, 1907, plates, contemporary red morocco, rebacked preserving original spine), Adolf Erman's Aegypten und Aegyptisches Leben im Altertum ... Neu Bearbeitet von Hermann Ranke (Tübingen, 1923, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, reprint, ex-library copy) and Jan and Cora J. Gordon's Two Vagabonds in Albania (London, 1927, original cloth, FIRST EDITION, ex-library copy). The lot sold not subject to return. (19)

Condition Report: There are five folding maps attached to the end of 'Scrambles Amongst the Alps'. There are 22 plates and 1 frontispiece.