Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BELL, JOHN. Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia. Folding engraved map. xvii, [3], 357, [3]; [2], 426, [1] pages, including ad leaf at end of first volume and errata leaf at end of second. 2 volumes. 4to, 242x185 mm, contemporary calf with morocco lettering pieces, slight wear to spine ends; offsetting from map onto fly-title in Volume 1, contents otherwise clean. Bookplates of Chillingham Castle and Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie's, 17 April 2007, lot 30). Glasgow & London: Robert and Andrew Foulis for the Author, 1763

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first edition. of Bell's record of his travels on Russian diplomatic missions from St. Petersburg and Moscow to Peking, Isfahan, Derbent, and Constantinople. Gaskell 415.