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GLAGOLEV ANDREI GAVRILOVICH (?-1844) Zapiski russkogo puteshestvennika A. Glagoleva, s 1823 po 1827 god’ [‘Notes of a Russian Traveller, 1823–1827’]

Lotto 648
5060
2nd edition, in 4 parts. St Petersburg: tip. K. Zhernakova, 1845. Part 4: Paris. London. Germany. — [2], 276, IV, [1] pp.; 23.5 × 16 cm. Contemporary half-leather binding, original ornamented publisher’s cover Condition: rubbing to binding, light foxing. A rare second edition of Glagolev’s travel memoirs, recounting his journeys across France, England, and Germany between 1823 and 1827. His Notes of a Russian Traveller are valued for their vivid observations of European society and culture through the perspective of a Russian intellectual of the early 19th century.


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