IDES, Evert Ysbrants. Three Years from Moscow over-land to China. London: W.Freeman, J.Walthoe, T.Newborough, J.Nicholson and R.Parker, 1706. 4° (243 x 195mm). Engraved frontispiece, large folding map (torn at folds), 30 plates and maps, 8 folding (one torn with loss and repaired). Contemporary panelled calf (spine repaired at head and foot, upper joint split). Provenance: Henry Benson (signatures, armorial bookplate); Rainold Knightley of Fawsley (armorial bookplate). -- Peter Simon PALLAS (1741-1811). Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire. Translated from the German by F.W.Blagdon. London: A.Strahan for T.Longman and others, 1802-1803. 2 volumes, 4° (256 x 207mm). 55 plates and maps, 43 HAND-COLOURED, 25 folding, 29 illustrations, 23 hand-coloured. (Volume I with wormhole to inner blank margin of leaves to Aa3, one folding plate in vol.II soiled at fold.) Later cloth-backed boards, vellum corners, original spine labels laid-down. Provenance: W. Wavell (signature); R.Turner (signature, dated 1811); H.Beavis (signature). Abbey Travel 222; and another. (4)