Author: [CONDER, Josiah] [Sidney Hall, Henry Adlard engr.]
Title: Russia. The Modern Traveller [Volume 17]: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe. Russia.
Description: London, for James Duncan; Oliver and Boyd Edinburgh; M. Ogle Glasgow; and R. M. Tims, Dublin , 1825. 12mo. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and decorated in compartments, morocco labels lettered gilt. 338 pp. 2 folding maps engraved by noted engraver and cartographer Sidney Hall (1788?–1831), two steel engravings by Henry Adlard (active 1824-1869). Maps and plates complete as called for. Small two centimetre piece unfortunately missing form spine head. Otherwise a very good copy. Boards and edges just a little rubbed. Internally very crisp and clean. Josiah Conder (1789–1855) as well as being a clergyman, an editor and writer and a popular hymn-writer, was also a prominent abolitionist and supported the repeal of British anti-Jewish laws. His most ambitious work was the thirty-volume worldwide geographical work: "The Modern Traveller".

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