Lyall Robert M D (3 results)
More imagesPublished by London printed for T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Blackwood Edinburgh 1823
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- First Edition
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United KingdomRoger Middleton P.B.F.A.
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Add to basketTITLE CONTINUED: a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia. FIRST EDITION 1823. 4to, approximately 280 x 220 mm, 11 x 8½ inches, 23 engraved plates, 13 aquatint hand-coloured plates, all clean, 1 uncoloured aquatint, 9 black and white engraved plates, 3 folding,… plus large folding engraved map of Moscow, all suffering from offset, plus 4 woodcuts in the text, pages: lacks half-title, [3], 6-28, [2] - subtitle, [i] ii-cliv, [2] - subtitle, [1] 2-639, [1] - Errata, Appendix and Index after page 528 (our collation is the same as in Abbey), bound in modern full maroon morocco, gilt lettering and extra gilt decoration to spine, gilt and blind decoration to covers, new endpapers, plain cloth slipcase. Folding plan has 1 small repair to inner margin and a 6 inch closed tear with old repair, not affecting the image, all of the black and white engravings including the plan have light offset from the text, some pages either side of the engravings also have pale offset, all other pages are clean. A very good copy. See: J. R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Volume 1, No. 227, pages 201-202. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.
More imagesPublished by Printed for T. Cadell, 1823., London: 1823
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Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Neuchatel, SwitzerlandJeff Weber Rare Books
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Add to basket4to. 28, [ii], cliv, [ii], 639, [1, errata] pp. With half-title. 23 plates including 13 hand-colored aquatints (one folding) and 1 uncolored aquatint (by Edward Finden after Lavrof), 9 line-engravings (3 folding), 1 large folding engraved plan of Moscow, 2 text wood-engravings. Rebound in 20th century half crimson morocco, spine… mased with gilt-stamped compartments, raised bands, dual spine labels of dark green and burgundy morocco, a.e.g.; edges rubbed. Former ownership signature of "Rand Russell" [?!]. Very good. 13 HAND-COLORED AQUATINTS. First edition of a richly illustrated account of the history and architecture of Moscow. It features delicate hand-colored aquatint views of the Kremlin by Edward Finden after Lavrof and a folding panorama (261 x 440 mm) which gives a "general front view" of the royal palace from the river Moskva. Lyall had practiced medicine in Russia, his experiences recorded here. A history of plagues in the 14th and 18th centuries is noted. He added a catalogue of plants found in the vicinity of Moscow, an essay on Russian architecture and an account of the burning of Moscow by Napoleon in 1814 (pp. 486-502). He describes mushrooms found in Russia. / Lyall was a physician, botanist, traveller. He was "born at Paisley in 1790, studied at Edinburgh University between 1801 and 1810, and proceeded M.D. there, but he spent some part of his early days at Manchester, studying plants, especially mushrooms. He appears to have been unsuccessful in his profession at home, although his papers on the irritability of plants, published in Nicholson's 'Journal' (vols. xxivâ"viii.), 1809â"11, attracted some attention among scientific botanists (cf. Royal Society's Cat. Scientific Papers). According to his own account, he 'twice found an asylum from misfortune and passed some of the best years of his life' in the Russian empire, where he seems to have married and to have grown intimate with the czar's physician, Sir Alexander Crichton [q. v. In 1815 he resided in St. Petersburg as physician to a nobleman's family, and he afterwards travelled to Kaluga with Mr. Pollaratskii. From 1816 to 1820 he was attached to the establishment of the Countess Orlof-Tchesmenska at Ostrof, sixteen miles from Moscow, in summer, and in winter at the ancient capital. In 1821 he was attending General Natschokin at Semeonovskoye, near Moscow". / "From 22 April till August 1822 he travelled, in the double capacity of courier and physician, with the Marquis Pucci, Count Salazar, and Edward Penrhyn, through the Crimea, Georgia, and the southern provinces of Russia. He reached London from St. Petersburg in August 1823. While in England he published 'The Character of the Russians and a detailed History of Moscow, illustrated with numerous Engravings, with a Dissertation on the Russian Language, and an Appendix containing Tables, political, statistical, and historical, an Account of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow, a Catalogue of Plants found in and near Moscow, and an Essay on the Origin and Progress of Architecture in Russia,' 4to, London and Edinburgh, 1823. In 1825 Lyall published his 'Travels in Russia, the Krimea, the Caucasus, and Georgia,' 2 vols. 8vo, London and Edinburgh. The journal of travel included a translation of the 'Journal' of General Vermotof's embassy in 1817 to Persia, portions of which had appeared in Kotzebue's 'Voyage en Perse.' Both works, which freely exposed the corruption and immorality of the Russian nobles and officials, gave great offence at St. Petersburg. His dedication of the first book to the Emperor Alexander was disavowed by the czar through the consul in London. In 1824 Lyall replied to the Quarterly Reviews criticism of his first work, and published 'An Account of the Organisation, Administration, and Present State of the Military Colonies in Russia,' 1824". â" DNB. REFERENCES: Abbey Travel 227; Anthony Cross, In the Lands of the Romanovs, 2014.
More imagesPublished by Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, London 1823
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition, with half-title. First edition, with half-title. With half-title. 23 plates including 13 colored aquatints (one folding) and one uncolored aquatint, 9 line-engravings (3 folding), one large folding engraved plan of Moscow and two wood-engravings in text. Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode. 28, [ii], cliv, [ii], 639,…[1, errata]. 4to. Abbey Travel 227 Neatly rebound to style in half calf and marbled boards, edges marbled. Signed on front free endpapers by famous Russian Lepidopterist Andrei Avinoff. A handsome copy, some foxing, crease in title-page With half-title. 23 plates including 13 colored aquatints (one folding) and one uncolored aquatint, 9 line-engravings (3 folding), one large folding engraved plan of Moscow and two wood-engravings in text. Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode. 28, [ii], cliv, [ii], 639, [1, errata]. 4to.
