Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus; with remarks on the ethnological and physical history of the Crimea. Signed association copy. First edition.
by Macpherson , Duncan (1812–1867)
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. . Folio, 27 x 37cm. folding colour lithograph frontispiece, additional lithograph title-page, 11 plates (including 9 in colour) and 2 maps, inscribed: "Jane Amelia Barclay MacPherson from her affectionate Father, London 7th March 1857", original cloth, rubbing and foxing... 1 preliminary leaf, xiv pages, 1 leaf, 130 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, xii plates (some color) 2 maps ; 37 cm...Duncan Macpherson (1812–1867), military surgeon, was born on 25 September 1812, and trained in medicine at Edinburgh, where he graduated MD in 1835. He was appointed surgeon to the army in Madras in 1836. Between 1840 and 1842 he served with the 37th grenadier regiment in China, and he was severely wounded at Chuenpe [Chuanbi] (ODNB)....Antoinette Amelia Barclay (Macpherson) Mitchell-Innes formerly Macpherson aka Dick Lauder...Born about 1828 in The Netherlands.Wife of George Dick Lauder — married 28 Jan 1850 in Leamington Priors, England;Wife of Gilbert Mitchell-Innes — married 18 Dec 1851 in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland....
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- Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus; with remarks on the ethnological and physical history of the Crimea. Signed association copy. First edition.
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- Macpherson , Duncan (1812–1867)
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- London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.
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