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HANWAY, Jonas. An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels from London through Russia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland, London: sold by Mr Dodsley, Mr Nourse, Mr. Millar [and 4 others], 1753.
4 volumes, 4° (253 x 203mm.), half titles in volume III and IV, 4 engraved frontispieces, 9 engraved folding maps and 15 plates (2 maps with long but clean tear, light worming to lower margin of first half of vol. I, light offsetting, occasional light spotting), contemporary calf (spines worn, scuffed). Provenance: S. Jervis, bookplate on verso of title.
FIRST EDITION. "Hanway was a well known traveller and philanthropist, popularly remembered as the pioneer user of the umbrella ... As a partner of a St. Petersburg merchant, he made a journey in 1743 down the Volga and by the Caspian Sea to Persia with a caravan of woolen goods, and returned in 1745 by the same route after many perilous adventures. He reached London in 1750" (Cox). Cox I, p. 255; Goldsmiths' 8801; Kress 5269. (4)
4 volumes, 4° (253 x 203mm.), half titles in volume III and IV, 4 engraved frontispieces, 9 engraved folding maps and 15 plates (2 maps with long but clean tear, light worming to lower margin of first half of vol. I, light offsetting, occasional light spotting), contemporary calf (spines worn, scuffed). Provenance: S. Jervis, bookplate on verso of title.
FIRST EDITION. "Hanway was a well known traveller and philanthropist, popularly remembered as the pioneer user of the umbrella ... As a partner of a St. Petersburg merchant, he made a journey in 1743 down the Volga and by the Caspian Sea to Persia with a caravan of woolen goods, and returned in 1745 by the same route after many perilous adventures. He reached London in 1750" (Cox). Cox I, p. 255; Goldsmiths' 8801; Kress 5269. (4)