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M. Anatole de Demidoff [Демидов, Анатолий Николаевич], "Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et le Moldavie [Путешествие по югу России и Крыму через Венгрию, Валахию и Молдавию]", художник Огюст Дени Мари Раффэ (1804–1860), 1854, Ernest Bourdin, Paris, XIV, 510 pages, foxing, illustrations on separate pages, maps on separate pages, 27 x 18 cm, 2 maps in attachment, slightly torn in some places. The second edition, published in French, about the journey through Southern Russia, Crimea, Hungary, and Moldavia, which was organized and financed by Anatoly Nikolaevich Demidov (1812–1870), a representative of the famous Demidov dynasty. It is known that all publications dedicated to this journey were also funded by A.N. Demidov. The edition is adorned with illustrations by the famous French painter and lithographer Auguste Denis Marie Raffet (1804–1860). In these illustrations, the artist captured the everyday life of the inhabitants of the territories through which the journey passed—Bulgarians, Romanians, Wallachians, Romani, Crimean Tatars, and Kuban Cossacks. The edition was published with a dedication to Nicholas I, and a engraved portrait of the Emperor is featured on the frontispiece.