RUSSELL-KILLOUGH (Henry Patrice Marie) Count Sixteen... - Lot 552 - Briscadieu

RUSSELL-KILLOUGH (Henry Patrice Marie) Count Sixteen thousand leagues through Asia and Oceania. Journey executed during the years 1858-1861. Siberia, Mongolia, China, Australian colonies - New Zealand, India, Himalayas Paris, Amyot, 1866. 2 volumes in-12: 2f., 424pp. / 2f., 427pp. ½ contemporary red chagrin, spines with ornate ribbing. A good copy. Second edition of 1866 after that of 1864. Jacques Labarère has recently located 2 Russian editions published in 1871 and 1875. With these "Sixteen Thousand Leagues", RUSSELL entered the ranks of the great explorers of the second half of the 19th century. His crossing of Siberia was a "first". "This long voyage, which began on September 24, 1858, lasted nearly three years. While in India, H. RUSSELL, short of money, published part of it in The Englishman and Military Chronicle of Calcutta, in the form of weekly articles, which appeared over a fifteen-week period from October 1860 to January 1861". The same work, published by Librairie des Pyrénées & de Gascogne (2002), with underlined passages and marginal notes, is enclosed.