Travels Through Part Of the Russian Empire and The Country Of Poland

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… Read more about this item

402 pages with appendix. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in black leather with black and red label with gilt lettering to labels, marbled end papers. (Catalogue Russica J557) First American edition, first published in London a year earlier. Johnston traveled from Danzig to Berlin in 1814, after two decades of Napoleonic Wars in Europe. His account takes the elitist/upper… Read more about this item

London: J. J. Stockdale, 1815. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. 4to. 28 by 21 cm. vii, errata, xiv, [2], 17-460 pp. 20 hand-colored plates of landscapes, buildings, costume. 2 full-page b/w maps. Several other b/w illustrations. All plates present, but not in identical order to Abbey 286, with "Flying Mountain", for example,… Read more about this item

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