PALLAS, PETER SIMON. Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1793. 50 (of 51) etched plates and 28 vignettes of topographical, costume, and other subjects, almost all hand-colored, and 4 uncolored engraved maps; Volume 1 lacks plate 14 (Tartar Chapel near Masslof-Kuut). xxiii, [1], 552; xxx, [2], 523 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 262x205 mm, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrips, Volume 1 front cover detached; maps and uncolored plates foxed, mostly light offsetting from or onto some colored plates, small piece torn from blank outer margin of plate facing page 283 in Volume 2. London: A. Strahan for T. Longman et al., 1802-03