RUSSELL-KILLOUGH (Henry Patrice Marie) Count - Lot 332

RUSSELL-KILLOUGH (Henry Patrice Marie) Count Sixteen thousand leagues through Asia and Oceania. Journey made during the years 1858-1861. Siberia, Gobie Desert, Peking, Amur River, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, Himalayas Paris, Hachette, 1864. 2 volumes in-12: 2f., 428pp. / 2f., 428pp. ; one fold-out map by ERHARD, one large fold-out panorama engraved by Alexandre DE BAR. ½ contemporary red chagrin, title, tomaisons gilt on spine, cold filets. First edition. The second is from 1866 and abridged in 1906. Jacques Labarère had located two Russian editions published in 1871 and 1875. The beautiful panorama, normally (abnormally!) titled "Panorama des Andes", has, on most copies, the label "Panorama de l'Himalaya pris de Dorjiling" (Panorama of the Himalayas from Dorjiling), which is the case of the copy we offer. A second, less common edition of the map has the title "Panorama de l'Himalaya pris de Dorjiling", printed directly on the sheet. There is also a curiosity concerning the title page of some copies, where the author's name is "Russell de Killough", the particle having disappeared on the majority of copies. With "Seize mille Lieues", 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 journey, which began on September 24, 1858, lasted almost 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".