[Rarebooks] FS: 1815 Travels Through Russia and Poland with 20 lovely hand-colored lithographed plates

[Charles Agvent]

JOHNSTON, Robert. TRAVELS THROUGH PART OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND THE 
COUNTRY OF POLAND, ALONG THE SOUTHERN SHORES OF THE BALTIC. London: J. 
J. Stockdale, 1815. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") in 
contemporary straight-grained red morocco with gilt tooling on the 
covers and spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Complete with half 
title and Directions for placing the plates. Illustrated with 20 lovely 
hand-colored lithographed plates, 2 maps, one full-page wood engraving, 
one text engraving, and one extra hand-colored plate loosely laid in. 
Abbey 15; Tooley 286. An account of a British scholar's journey from St. 
Petersburg through Moscow to Smolensk in 1814. Johnston also 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, etc. The charming hand-colored 
aquatint plates by H. Daw, C. J. Canton, F. C. Lewis, and others, after 
drawings by the author, include depictions of The flying monument, 
Hamburg, Tilsit, Cronstadt boatmen, Casan Church and the Hermitage in 
St. Petersburg, Igiora, Moscow, the Kremlin, Borodino, Smolensk, 
Borisoff etc. The extra hand-colored plate from another work, dated 
1812, is titled "Kalmucs." Occasional soiling with some offsetting from 
the plates to the text but the plates are clean. Some wear to joints but 
covers are tight and firm. Near Fine example. (#019144) $1,500

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