Remarkable Russia our Motherland, Topography, History, Economy and Life. (Translation of title)

St. Petersburg and Moscow: M.O. Volf and Co, 1895. An excellent copy.. Binding: contemporary full decorative red cloth, upper board with gilt image of a bird holding a standard, bering the title of the book all within an embossed fillet boarder, lower board with a series of geometrical designs. Flat spine with title and elaborate blind tooled designs. All edges marbled, ornamental paste down and free end papers, small ex-libris on free end paper., Notes: Text in Russian
This is a history of the region and people of eastern Russia, from Kamchatka, the Sea of Japan and Sakhalin Island by P.P. Semenov who was the vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society.
P.P.Semenov – geographer and geologist, botanic and entomologist, economist, traveler, organizer and historian. In summer 1856 he accompanied by a small team of Cossacks, started from the town of Verniy (Almaty) for expedition to the Central Tian-Shan, as a little-known member of Russian Geographical Society, but in 1857 he returned as a worldwide well-known scientist., Size: small Folio, Illustration: 36 full page wood cut plates, 2 maps, and a profusion of intext wood cut illustrations., Volume: Volume XII only, Pages: P. half-title, (1), engraved half-title, blank, title, printers imprint, engraved title, blank, 1-470, i-iii., Category: Book Russia