Heading: (Russia)
Author: Vasa Fox, Gustavus and J. F. Loubat
Title: Narrative of the Mission to Russia, in 1866, of the Hon. Gustavus Vasa Fox, from the Journal and Notes of J.F. Loubat.
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: 1873
Description:

viii, [3], 10-444 pp. With 13 engraved portrait plates, including frontispiece. (4to) 24x16 cm (9½x7"), original green cloth decorated in gilt and black. First Edition.

Inscribed by Fox to Charles Sumner on the front flyleaf: "Hon. Charles Sumner with the sincere regards of G.V. Fox, [?], Aug. 14, '73." This copy is withdrawn from the Sumner bequest to Harvard College, and bears Sumner's bookplate. Fox served in the American Civil War and was dispatched to Russia at its conclusion to congratulate Tsar Alexander II on having escaped assassination. During his stay he took an active part in the negotiations which resulted in the purchase of Alaska. Sumner was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts. Important association copy of this scarce volume between two major American political and military figures of the Civil War era.

Wear, rubbing, and some soiling to cloth, fraying to spine ends; front hinge cracked, rear hinge with glue repair, small abraded areas of front endpapers, Harvard library stamp on bookplate and copyright page, toning to interior; good or better.