Pallas Peter Simeon, “Travels through the Southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794”, A. Strahan, London, 1802-1803. First English edition, complete in two Volumes. Tall 4to, pp. xxiii,552 + xxx,523. Includes all the 6 maps, the 6 copper engravings and the 28 (mostly coloured) vignettes. 37 (of 43) colour aquatints plates (22 folding). All important aquatints included. Pallas (1741-1811) travelled extensively across the Russian empire. This book is the result of a specific mission undertaken in 1793/4, targeting to describe the newly conquered by Russia, Northern Black sea lands and people. As a scientist, his travel accounts are accurate, providing a pluralistic image of these unknown at this time, former Ottoman territories, including the establishment of Greeks in the Crimea. His wife was an artist and left splendid drawings of people and landscapes from this travel. The current edition is the only one to be decorated with the, designed by his wife (painter), splendid colour aquatints, that impressed specialists such as Abbey (Abbey Travel 222) & Tooley. Ex libris of the English politician Sir Marcus Sommerville. Contemporary leather with marbled boards, rebaked. One of the first scientific books on Northern Black sea. Not in Atabey.