152 - De Ros: Journal of a Tour in the Principalities, Crimea, and Countries adjacent to the Black Sea in the years 1835 and 1836. London, 1855

De Ros: Journal of a Tour in the Principalities, Crimea, and Countries adjacent to the Black Sea in the years 1835 and 1836. London, 1855 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary red cloth, complete 164p., text clean and bright,overall in very good condition. De Ros travelled around the Black sea in the mid 1830s but his account remained unpublished. The new focus on the area following the Crimean war made his publication very useful and interesting. De Ros was one of the few British officers who had actually been inside the Russian ports he was now helping to besiege. Perhaps the most significant contemporary with the publication addition to this narrative is the military appendix. By 1855, De Ros was a Major-General and had served as Quartermaster-General to the British Army in Crimea, this section provides a professional evaluation of the Russian Earthworks and the tenacity of the Russian infantry. The travel account is very rich in information about Black sea trade, almost completely controlled by the Greek traders and navigators in the mid 19th century. De Ross remarked on the Greek population presence and control all around the main ports and cities of the basin of Black sea and in the Principalities.