DEMIDOFF, Anatole de || DURAND, André || RAFFET, Auguste. Excursion pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Havre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Pétersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Nowgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839. [v.1842].

Scarce first edition of this atlas of the second excursion to Russia, financed by Anatole de Demidoff and sought after for its beautiful lithographs of the greatest Russian cities and their famous landmarks.

More commonly found is the atlas of the first excursion of 1837, which accompanies the book "Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécutée en 1837."

The second expedition, executed in 1839, departed from Le Havre and passed through Hamburg, Lubeck, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslaw, and Kasan.

The views published in the present second album are the most famous, since they included beautiful lithographs of the largest Russian towns and their celebrated places, such as the Winter Palace and the Alexandrine column in St. Petersburg, the banks of the Volga in Nizhniy-Novgorod, the Kremlins of Kasan and Moscow.