Lot n° 66
Estimation :
150 - 200
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 406EUR
[MANUSCRIT] - Lot 66
[MANUSCRIT]
"Recollections of the Crimean Expedition. Part One: March 1, 1854 to September 8, 1855"
Manuscript dated January 1861, 220 pages, ended with a table of contents, no erasures, worn binding. Interesting account of this historic war period, pitting the Russian Empire against a coalition of the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Chapter headings include: Gallipoli, the Bosphorus, Varna, Cholera, Kamiesh Bay, first episodes of the Siege of Sebastopol, Battle of Inkermann, storms, scurvy, typhus, assault and capture of the Mamelon Vert... ending with the assault and capture of the Malakoff Tower.
- Joint :
2 notebooks of original drawings, landscapes (19th century).
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