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HOMMAIRE DE HELL, [Ignace] Xavier [Morand] [1812-1848].. Travels In The Steppes Of The Caspian Sea, The Crimea, The Caucasus, &c.
8vo. pp. viii, 436. contemporary polished calf, gilt back. First Edition of the English Translation. Hommaire de Hell, a French geologist, explored the regions which border the Black and Caspian Seas from 1838 to 1842. He was principally concerned with the physical structure of the Crimea and the Steppes of New Russia, and the communication between the Black and Caspian Seas before the Bosphorus erupts into the Sea of Marmara. This English edition contains a narrative of the journey and description of the country and its inhabitants, largely written by de Hell's wife, but omits the scientific and geological data and observations and plates contained in the original French version of 1844-45. Nerhood 214.
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