HARTHAUSEN (Auguste de). Études sur la situation intérieure, la vie nationale et les institutions rurales de la Russie. Hanover, Hahn, 1847-1853, 3 vol. in-8, nbses ill. in-t., half green basane, smooth spine, gilt fillets (contemporary binding). Investigation carried out in Russia in 1843 by a Prussian author in search of the origins of certain rural institutions in western Germany. Contains abundant information on all aspects of Russian society, as well as analyses designed to give fresh impetus to social progress - in particular, the abolition of serfdom - in a Russia that "still needs more than a century to conquer itself internally! (Minor wear to spine).