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HANWAY, Jonas (1712-1786). An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels from London through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany, and Holland. London: sold by Dodsley, Nourse, Millar and others, 1753. 4 volumes, 4 (257 x 205mm). Half-titles to vols.III & IV. Engraved frontispieces to each volume, 15 plates, 9 folding maps, 13 engraved headpieces. (Lacking three blanks: 3D4 from vol.I, 3A4 from vol.II and Pp4 from vol.IV, half-title to vol.III with small section of blank margin torn away and repaired.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked, later endpapers).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest eye-witness accounts, by a European, of the Caspian region. Hanway, a partner in an English firm operating out of St.Petersburg, was engaged in trade with Persia. He supplemented his own observations with extensive use of De Clairac's history of Persia. (4)
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest eye-witness accounts, by a European, of the Caspian region. Hanway, a partner in an English firm operating out of St.Petersburg, was engaged in trade with Persia. He supplemented his own observations with extensive use of De Clairac's history of Persia. (4)