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JOHNSTON, Robert

Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the country of Poland;

along the southern shores of the Baltic.

Stock Code
88853
London, J.J. Stockdale, 1815
£1,850

An early issue of the first edition,with plates including Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stralsund, Frauensberg, Tilsit, Cronstadt, Igiora a Village near St. Petersburg, a Flying Mountain (a helterskelter), Bronnitzi, women near Novgorod, the Kremlin, Borodino, Smolensk, Lithuanian Jewesses and a view of Borisoff. These plates are accompanied by an interesting and informative text on local customs, history and so on, written as the author progressed along his route.

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Description

4to., (29.7 x 23.7 cm). Half-title, title, vii, 460 pp., with 20 hand-coloured plates (including the frontispiece), two maps, one full-paged uncoloured plate of Russian farming implements, and one text illustration, at least two plates with 1812 watermark. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt on spine and both boards, gilt edges; rebacked preserving spine, a bit rubbed at edges.

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