Author: Zwick, Heinrich ('Henry') August & Johann Gottfried Schill.
Title: Calmuc Tartary or a journey from Sarepta to several Calmuc hordes of the Astracan Government, from May 26 to August 21, 1823. Undertaken on behalf of the Russian Bible Society by Henry Augustus Zwick and John Golfried Schill, and described by the former.
Description: London, Holdsworth & Ball, 1831. IV,262 pp. Late 19th / early 20th century h.leaher binding, marbled boards, spine raised in compartments, spine with gilt lettering / dec. 12mo. - Blind stamp on the title-page (Essex Institute 1848); modern endpapers. An attractive copy of the rare first English edition. A n translation of the original German edition of Reise von Sarepta, published in Leipzig by Paul Gotthelf Kummer in 1827. Helmut ('Henry') August Zwick and Johann Gottfried Schill, Moravian missionaries and ethnologists, spent years at the Herrnhut mission station of Sarepta.

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