Author: Seymour, H.
Title: Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: being a narrative of travels in the Crimea and bording provinces with notices of the naval, military and commercial resources of those countries. [With author's handwritten dedication].
Description: London, John Murray, 1855. 8vo (22.0 x 14.2 cm) xxiv, 361 pp.; three folded, engraved maps, two engravings and one engraved frontispiece. Original embossed cloth with gilt title on the spine. = An interesting exploration narrative on the Black Sea and Sevastopol, signed by the author on the title, and dated London, June 55, apparently to a Mr White (his name in a different hand, above. Written by the British Henry Danby Seymour (1820-1877) He "was a British gentleman and Liberal Party politician. In 1862 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. A member of the Liberal Party, Seymour sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole from 1850 to 1868 and served as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control, the body which oversaw the activities of the East India Company, from 1855 until the Company's abolition in 1858. Seymour climbed Mount Ararat in 1846, and wrote two topographical works, Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof and Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan. In 1856 Seymour donated fragments of the Tomb of Sobekhotep, Thebes, to the British Museum. He translated as A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs a work in two volumes by Heinrich Karl Brugsch" (Wikipedia). The author's name written on the front free endpaper recto. A medium copy, the binding stained, and faded, and with a crude restauration to the front inner joint, as well as poor repairs to the large map of Crimea and adjacent parts of Ukraine and frontispiece edges. The two maps of Sevastopol are good.

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