NARRATIVE OF THE MISSION TO RUSSIA, IN 1866

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's inscription to first blank page. Very light foxing to first and last pages. Front hinge a bit tender. ; Including 13 tissue guarded engravings and one fold-out charts. "Fox (1821-83) was sent by Congress to congratulate Alexander II on his escape from assassination and sailed on the monitor Miantonomoh to St Petersburg, where he arrived on 5 August 1866. Over the following weeks until their departure on 27 September the Americans were fêted wherever they went, which included Moscow and towns along the Volga (pp. 78-409). The visit was chronicled in minute and fascinating detail by Vasa’s secretary (1831-1927) and the appendices included the score of the ‘Miantonomoh galop’, composed for the piano by Heinrich Fürstnow in Fox’s honour (pp. 430-35)." from: Anthony Cross: REIGN OF ALEXANDER II (1855–1881). In the Lands of the Romanovs. An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) . ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii, 444 pages

Condizioni: very good+