Recollections of Tartar steppes and their inhabitants

by Atkinson Mrs, Lucy

$425 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. 8vo, pp. xvi, 351, 1 , 32 Murray catalogue ; frontispiece and 4 wood-engraved plates; original purple cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Notes on rear endpaper and rear endpaper partially torn, two ink ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf, spine darkened, spine ends rubbed and cracked; all else very good and sound. Lucy Atkinson worked as a governess in St. Petersburg, where she met and married the explorer Thomas

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