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BELL, James Stanislaus SKU: 18640 Barcode:
Stock No. 18640
Authors: James Stanislaus, BELL (1797-1858)
London : Edward Moxon, 1840
First Edition. Two vols. Medium 8vo. pp [xxiii], 453 + viii, [2], 488. Four plates in vol I, including a coloured frontispiece of Hadji Ghuz Beg and a fold out map of Circassia at the rear, and nine plates in vol II, including coloured frontspiece, all with tissue guards. Plates and guards foxed in some cases, as are both titlepages, Rebound in later dark red cloth with lettering to spines. Circassia was a country and historical region in the North Caucasus along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. It was conquered and occupied by Russia during the Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864), after which most of the Circassian people were either exiled from the region or massacred in the Circassian genocide. James Bell was a British adventurer and writer who participated in the Russo-Circassian War on the side of the Circassians. Under the cover of establishing commercial relations, he was actually aiding the resistance of the Circassians against the Russian Empire.
