Author: Hanway, Jonas.
Title: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH TRADE over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels from London 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.
Description: 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. Vol. 1. xx + 399pp. [Lacking title page but with title page of vol. 3. inserted]. Frontis., 8 engraved vignettes chapter headings, 5 folding maps, 3 engraved plates, [lacking 3 folding maps]. T.p. and frontis. adhered slightly along gutter hinge with sm. tear to head of frontis., ‘Tho Rivitt’ across head of t.p.; Vol. 2. xv + [i] + 374pp. + [xv] Index. [Lacking title page and pp.177-198] Frontis. (cracked along fore-edge) , 3 engraved vignette chapter headings, 7 plates, [lacking 5 plates]. Minor marginal worming to tail of gutter hinge from pp.350 onwards, head of Y3 silked. Vol. 3 ([iii]-xv) + 255pp. [Lacking title page (inserted in vol. 1)]. Half title, frontis., engraved vignette chapter heading, folding map. Vol. 4. ([iii-xv)] + 301pp. + [xx] Index and Explanation. [Lacking title page (inserted in vol. 1)]. Half title, frontis., engraved vignette chapter heading. IN TOTAL 4 frontiss., 13 vignette chapter headings, 6 folding maps, 10 plates [lacking 3 title pages, 3 maps, 5 plates, pp.177-198 of vol. 2]. 4 vols. 4to. Some browning and soiling, occasional marginal fraying and chipping, rebound in modern later C20th bonded leather, gilt ruling and gilt lettered labels to spines. ¶ Cox I, 255; ESTC T93947; Goldsmiths' Library, 8801. Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, 1751-1775, 481, Kress, 5268. Hanway was a well known traveller and philanthropist, popularly remembered as the pioneer of the use of the umbrella. 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 woollen 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.

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