The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow. Illustrated with numerous engravings.

Hardback. 1823. With a Dissertation on the Russian Language and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistiical, and historical; an account of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. &c. 28, cliii, 640pp half title, 23 engraved plates, including 13 hand-coloured aquatints, of which 1 is a folding panorama of the Kremlin & 1 uncoloured, 9 black and white engraved plates (3 folding) and a large folding engraved plan of Moscow, 2 woodcuts in the text. 4to, T.Cadell, London & W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. 1st edition. Abbey Travel 227. Anthony Cross, In the Lands of the Romanovs, 2014. F61. Dr. Lyall (1789-1831) left Scotland for St Petersburg in 1815 and became house physician for four years on the estate of Countess Orlova-Chesmenskaia. He then married and moved again as house physician, to an estate near Moscow. His book, which was to incur the wrath of the Russian authorities for its critique of the nobility and serfdom, was ublished soon after his final return from Russia in August 1823. Half calf with marbled boards, edges & end-papers. Gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, which has been neatly relaid. The boards are a little rubbed, otherwise a very good copy, the plates and text of which are in excellent condition. .