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Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland; Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic

Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland; Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic

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Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland; Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic

by JOHNSTON, Robert [1783-1839]

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London: J.J.Stockdale, 1815. First Edition of this account of a British scholar's journey from St. Petersburg through Moscow to Smolensk in 1814. Johnston visited Dantzig, Memel, Cronstadt, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Smolensk, Grodno, Doubrovna, Borisoff, Minsk, Mir, Warsaw, and Berlin, and comments on the difficulties of travel, commerce and trade, the effects of slavery, religious superstition, the devastation wreaked by the Napoleonic army, agriculture, the Russian frontiers, &c. The charming hand-coloured aquatint plates by H.Daw, C.J.Canton, F.C.Lewis, and others, after drawings by the author, include depictions of Hamburg, Tilsit, Cronstadt boatmen, Casan Church and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Igiora, Moscow, the Kremlin, Borodino, Smolensk, Borisoff, &c. Abbey, Travel, 15. Cat. Russica J557. Martin Hardie pp. 141-42. Nerhood 164. Prideaux pp. 227 & 341. Tooley 286. 4to. pp. 1 p.l., vii, [1]errata, [1 leaf]list of plates, xiv, [2], [17]-460. complete with half-title. 2 engraved maps, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1 wood-engraved plate, & 1 wood-engraved text illus. modern half red morocco, gilt back, t.e.g. (spine slightly faded, some light foxing & toning to text, offsetting from plates)

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Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland; Along The Southern Shores Of The Baltic
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JOHNSTON, Robert [1783-1839]
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London: J.J.Stockdale, 1815
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