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London : printed for T. Osbourne [ect...], 1762. Later Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. End board lost. Interior remains surprisingly well preserved. Physical description; xx, 399 p. : frontis., ill., plates, [8] fold. maps ; 26 cm. Subjects; Nadir Shah Shah of Iran (1688-1747). Great Britain — Commerce — History. Russia — Description and travel. Iran — History — 16th-18th centuries. Iran — Description and travel. Europe — Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated.

London : Sold by Mr Dodsley ... [et al] , 1753. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling. Front board lost. Text remains clear with some shadowing and foxing as with age. Physical description; xx, 399 p. : frontis., ill., plates, [8] fold. maps ; 26 cm. Subjects; Nadir Shah Shah of Iran (1688-1747). Great Britain — Commerce — History. Russia — Description and travel. Iran — History — 16th-18th centuries. Iran — Description and travel. Europe — Description and travel. Genre; Illustrated.

London, printed for T. Osborne, D. Brown, T. and T. Longman, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White, R. Dopsley and J. and J. Rivington., 1754. The Second Edition, revised and corrected. by Jonas Hanway, Merchant.. Very Good. Gr.-8¡, Leder. Illustrated with maps and copper-plates. In Two Volumes. Ausgetragenes Bibliotheksexemplar, Buch ist in einem guten Zustand, 2 BŠnde, brauner Ganzledereinband mit 5 BŸnden, Einband berieben, Kapitale angerissen, Kanten berieben, Ecken angeschabt, Papier in altersgemŠ§em sehr gutem Zustand. UrsprŸnglich gedruckt fŸr die Londoner Russell Institution/ Russell Institution for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Knowledge, ordnungsgemŠ§ ausgesondert bei einer deutscher Fachbibliothek, das Frontispiz des ersten Bandes ist ein Kupferstich, markiert mit Ravenet sculp (Simon Francous Ravenet 1796-1774), einem fŸr seine naturgetreuen Abbildungen bekannten Kupferstecher, daneben Blakey delin, Nicholas Blakey, Buchillustrator und… Read More

London: Sold by Mr. Dodsley, in Pall-mall; Mr. Nourse, Mr. Millar, Mr. Vaillant, and Mr. Patterson, in the Strand; Mr. Waugh, in Lombard Street; and Mr. Willock, in Cornhill, 1753. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). Four volume set; incomplete, lacking the frontisportrait and 6 plates in the 2nd volume. It appears as though they were never bound-in as there is no off-setting onto pages adjacent to where they should be located. Contains all nine of the folding maps, as called for, and 12 of the 19 engraved plates (including frontisports), as well as thirteen allegorical vignettes. Early full leather bindings are heavily rubbed and worn, with all hinges nicely repaired with Japanese tissue colored to match. Unfortunately the first volume is cracked in half, breaking the text block, with a few pages and one folding map detached; in need of a binder's attention and/or careful handling. Vol. I: xx, 399 pages of text. Vol. II: xvi, 374 pages of text, followed by [xvi] pages of… Read More

London: Printed for T. Osborne and others, 1754.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Two volumes. I: xxvii, [i], 460, [viii]pp.; II: xx, 460, [xx]pp. I: A4 (- A1 blank?), a4-b4, c2, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ooo4; II: A4, b4, c2, B4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ppp4. Second edition. Modern half goatskin over marbled boards. With 9 fold-out copperplate maps, and 32 other copperplates. With the stamp of the Detroit Public Library on the title-pages.

London: T. Osborne [et al.], 1754. 2 vols., 4to, 9 engraved folding maps, 19 engraved plates, a number of engraved vignettes in the text; recent handsome half brown morocco over olive linen sides, red and green morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; very nice copy. Cox I, p. 255: "Hanway was a well-known traveler and philanthropist, popularly remembered as the pioneer user of the umbrella. Readers of Boswell will recall Johnson's severe criticism of his essay attacking tea-drinking. 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. He later filled several public positions, and had a street named after him in London and a monument erected to him in Westminster Abbey. Dr. Johnson said of him, "that he acquired a reputation travelling abroad, but lost it all by travelling at home." This was in reference to his… Read More

London: T. Osborne et al.. Very good set in contemporary leather. 1762. 3rd ed.. leather. 4to, 460+, 460+ pp., Complete in two volumes with all plates and maps (many fold-outs), Full title reads as follows: "An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea : With the Author's Journal of Travels from England through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added The revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli." Hinges partially cracked but holding; contents, including pates and maps, clean; gilt-decorated spine with five raised bands and contrasting title labels .

London: sold by Mr. Dodsley; Mr. Nourse, Mr. Millar, Mr. Vaillant, and Mr. Patterson; Mr. Waugh; and Mr. Willock, 1753.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Four volumes. I: xx, 399pp.; II: xv, [i], 374, [xv]pp.; III: xv, 255pp.; IV: xv, 301, [20]pp. I: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Ddd4 (Ddd4 blank); II: a4, b2-c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4, Bbb2-Eee2; III: []4, b2-c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Ii4; IV: []4, b2-c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Pp4 (- Pp4 blank), Qq2-Uu2. With half-titles to volumes III and IV present. First edition. The volume statements on the half-titles to volumes III and IV read: 'Vol. III' and 'Vol. IV' but the title-pages have 'Vol. I' and 'Vol. II' respectively. Title-page to volume III reads: 'The revolutions of Persia: containing the reign of Shah Sultan Hussein, with the invasion of the Afghans, .. ' Title-page to volume IV reads: 'The revolutions of Persia: containing the history of the celebrated usurper Nadir Kouli, ...' Nineteenth century quarter brown morocco over cloth. With 4 engraved allegorical… Read More

London: T. Osborne et al., 1754. Second edition. Hardcover. folding maps, engravings. 4to. Pagination: volume I, pp. xxiv [pp. xxv-xxviii mis-bound at end of volume], 1-458 [pp. 459-460 mis-bound after pp. xxviii], [1] 'Explanation of the Copper-Plates in this Work', [1-8] Index; volume II, pp. xx, [plate], pp. [1]-460, [1-14] Index, [1-4] 'An Explanation of Several Foreign Words in the Two Volumes', [1-2] 'Books Printed for A. Millar in the Strand'. Beautifully re-bound with blind-ruled lines and gilt florettes to boards, the spines in compartments with morocco spine labels; both volumes bound in period style. New hand-made marbled endpapers. Nine folding maps, 19 full-page copper engraved plates, and 12 engraved vignettes. All plates and maps present, except that the folding map of the Russian Embassy to Persia, called for at p. 237 of volume I is mis-bound at p. 237 of volume II. All other maps and plates placed as stipulated in the 'Explanation' (see above). Marginal notations in a very early… Read More