Bell J.: “Journal of a Residence in Circassia in the years 1837,1838 and 1839 “.London 1841

First edition. Large in 8vo 23x14cm,contemporary brown cloth very slightly rubbed, complete in two volumes,2 fine colored lithographed frontispieces,10 more lithographed plates (8 tinted,1 plain,1 hand colored),internally clean and bright, overall in very good condition. James Bell was a British merchant established in the then independent Circassia, an area in western Caucasus in the Black sea ,and provides invaluable information for the eastern Black sea area ,still not controlled by the Russians. His pro-Turkish and anti-Russian sentiments were shared by many contemporary English .The fall of Circassia just a few years later ,made Bell s fine account one of the very few primary sources available for the contemporary 19th century situation in the eastern Black sea. Bell kept a daily calendar .His first chapter is a detailed travel account along the Pontos coast from Sinopi (Sinop) to Circassia .Nicely illustrated .Atabey 91,not in Blackmer .Rare