KOECHLIN-Schwartz Alfred, “Un touriste au Caucase: Volga Caspienne, Caucase”, Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, n.d. [1880]. Second edition. Small 8o (18x12cm), pp.351,[2]. Green period cloth binding rubbed. Complete with a folding map. Light spotting throughout. Koechlin-Schwartz (1829-1895) was a French industrialist and politician. As royalist, he left from France after 1871 and travelled to Tsarist Russia. Through Daghestan (after the Shamyl rebellion in the 1860s), he arrived in Baku-Azerbaijan and headed towards Tiflis-Georgia. After describing Georgia, he passed through the mountains towards Northern Caucasus and Vladikafkaz. Scarce book, one of the first examples of the new style of travelling “tourism” in those areas.