Hanway,J.

An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea. Second ed. 2 vols. London, Osborne a.o. 1754. 4°. With 2 gest. Front, 17 copper plates, 9 gest. folding maps and 16 gest. Text vign. XXVII, 460 pp., 4 fol.; XX, 460 pp., 10 fol. Mod. Ldrbde. with ribbon. Brunet III, 38: "Ouvrage curieux." Cox I, 255. Kress 6025. cf. Schwab 245. - Report on the Persian journey of 1743-50 undertaken on behalf of an English merchant house, "rich in equally excellent as new observations on the country and people of northern Persia, by which Europe received a first detailed picture of the southern Caspian landscape" (Henze II, 459). - Contains furthermore a description of the Russian court in St. Petersburg and city descriptions of Reval, Danzig, Berlin, Dresden, Brunswick, Wolfenbüttel, Hanover, and Bremen. - Browned a. fl. (partly somewhat stronger), maps mostly with backed tears and partly somewhat creased.