SENKOVSKY O.I. (1800-1858) Fantasticheskie puteshestviya Barona Brambeusa [The Fantastic Travels of Baron Brambeus]. St Petersburg: Tip. vdovy Plyushar s synom, 1835.

XLVIII, 391 pp.: ill.; 18.5 x 12.5 cm. In Russian. In a period composite binding. Leather spine with faded gilt tooling, boards covered with marbled paper. In good condition. Rubbing to the binding, losses of leather on the spine and of paper on the rear board, crack along the title page in the text block, free endpaper missing, minor soiling, foxing, owner’s drawings within the text block. A satirical and fantastical collection by the renowned writer and editor Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky (1800-1858), founder of Russia’s first ‘thick journal’, Biblioteka dlya chteniya. ‘Brambeus’s witty and mocking sketches, written in the form of travels to Turkey, Bear Island and Mount Etna, satirised many literary and philosophical trends of the time.’ Literature: Sm.-Sok., no. 1121.