Gilles F. "Lettres sur le Caucase et la Crimee", Paris 1859. First edition. Tall 4o, pp.viii, 548. Complete with a folding map, 16 lithographed plates and 30 vignettes. Contemporary leather with marbled boards. A rare travel account, describing in details the eastern Black sea coastline Caucasian lands, Georgia, Armenia, Crimea & returning via GREECE. Floriant Gille (1801-1865) was a Swiss curator and writer that lived in Russia and spoke several languages. In the 1840s he served as educator of the Tsars children and later became Director of the Hermitage Museum. In 1858 he travelled for 10 months in the southern provinces of Russian empire bordering the Black sea, as well as Caucasus and one year after he published his vivid travel account. Not in Atabey or Blackmer. Miansarov 3187. Rare.