Hanway, Jonas

2 volumes, 4to (253 x 200mm.), engraved frontispiece (with letterpress explanation loosely inserted), 8 folding engraved maps, 10 engraved plates (1 folding), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt in compartments, first folding map in vol.1 slightly torn and stained, occasional light staining, first volume lacking one lettering-piece, turn-ins becoming unstuck

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First Dutch edition of Hanway's account of his travels across Russia and Persia in the 1740s, originally published in London in 1753 as An historical account of British trade over the Caspian Sea.