Kennan, George — SIBERIA AND THE EXILE SYSTEM [TWO VOLUME SET]

Very Good The Century Company First Edition Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. A few pages unopened.; "Sponsored by the Century magazine and accompanied by the Boston artist and photographer George Frost, Kennan arrived in Russia for his fourth visit in May 1885. He came prepared to give a favourable assessment of the penal system in Siberia, but subsequent meetings and events in Siberia radically changed his views and, through his subsequent book and lectures, those of America. In the course of eight months, between June 1885 and March of the following year, they covered some 8,000 miles within Siberia." (Cross, Anthony. “REIGN OF ALEXANDER III (1881–1894). ” In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) , 1st ed. , Open Book Publishers, 2014, pp. 273–309). - Green boards with gilt lettering. Blindstamped decorative floral design. Volume 1 with frontispiece, 4 maps and 90 illustrations. Volume 2: frontispiece and 104 illustrations as well as 3 maps.; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; xv, 409; x, 575 pages New York