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MANSTEIN, Christoph Hermann von. Memoirs of Russia. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1770.
4° (265 x 195mm). 10 engraved folding maps. (Occasional light spotting, occasional light offsetting.) Later half-calf (front joint split, front hinge repaired, back joint starting, rubbed). Provenance: Wharton (inscription in a 19th-century hand on front paste-down). FIRST EDITION. An important eye-witness account for the period, translated by David Hume from the original, previously unpublished manuscript.
OLEARIUS, Adam. The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia. The second edition. London: John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669.
4° (330 x 204mm). Engraved frontispiece, 5 (of 6) engraved folding maps, 2 engraved portrait. (Occasional marginal dampstain.) Contemporary calf (re-backed, repair to extremities, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: William de Grey (inscription dated 1675 on front endpaper; doodle on rear free endpaper). Wing 0270; cf. Lust 342. (2)
4° (265 x 195mm). 10 engraved folding maps. (Occasional light spotting, occasional light offsetting.) Later half-calf (front joint split, front hinge repaired, back joint starting, rubbed). Provenance: Wharton (inscription in a 19
OLEARIUS, Adam. The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia. The second edition. London: John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669.
4° (330 x 204mm). Engraved frontispiece, 5 (of 6) engraved folding maps, 2 engraved portrait. (Occasional marginal dampstain.) Contemporary calf (re-backed, repair to extremities, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: William de Grey (inscription dated 1675 on front endpaper; doodle on rear free endpaper). Wing 0270; cf. Lust 342. (2)
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