Boddy (Alexander A.) With Russian Pilgrims.
£75
Being an account of a sojourn in the White Sea Monastery and a journey by the old trade route from the Arctic Sea to Moscow
London, Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1893.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A lovely copy of this book by one of the founders of Pentecostalism in Britain.
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Prize plate to front pastedown; overall an excellent copy.
Frontispiece, plates, maps and illustrations.
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