Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Hanway, Jonas (1712-1786)
An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a Journal of Travels from London through Russia into Persia.

London: Sold by Mr. Dodsley et alia, 1753.

First edition, four large quarto volumes bound as three, a mixed set, the first two volumes a pair with the addition of an odd third; illustrated with engraved frontispieces in all four volumes, nine folding maps, and fifteen full page text engravings; first two volumes in matching full contemporary calf bindings (worn, joints cracked); 10 x 7 1/2 in.; third volume, containing volumes III & IV bound together in old speckled calf boards, worn, front joint repaired, 10 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (3)

ESTC T93947.