Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian empire in the years 1793 and 1794 Translated from the German. 2d ed. London: printed for John Stockdale. 2 vols. Ellis Omnia E10, v.1

Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian empire in the years 1793 and 1794 Translated from the German. 2d ed. London: printed for John Stockdale. 2 vols. Ellis Omnia E10, v.1

Ur-Land of Oz... An aquatint view – from one of our most beautiful printed volumes – of the pre-Kansas homeland of our local Volga German population, who brought to western Kansas the Turkey-red wheat (as well as the noxious and pesky Russian thistle and bindweed) and by the former helped fashion us into The Breadbasket of The World.

Ellis Omnia E10, Vol. 1