78/2856 [Russia]. Hanway, J. Nieuwe en wetenswaerdige reizen, behelzende deszelfs Reize van London door Rusland nae en in Persie, byzonder in de provincien leggende aen de Kaspische zee, Gedaen in de jaeren 1753 en 1754. Uyt het Engelsch vertaeld. Haarlem, I. and J. Enschedé and J. Bosch, 1755, 1st Dutch ed., 2 vols., 32,438; (2),IV,444p., engr. frontisp., 8 fold. maps and 10 (1x fold.) plates by J.C. PHILIPS, C. SEPP a.o., contemp. unif. hcalf w. gilt spine w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces, large 4to.

- Apparently lacks (skips?) 1 index leaf (Iii4) (but catchword is correct); a few quires in vol.1 (sl.) foxed. Both vols. paper over covers partly worn/ chafed; backstrips sl. worn/ trifle dam.; corners rubbed; upper joint of vol.2 starting.

= Tiele 451 and Cat. NHSM, p.258; cf. Howgego H21 and Cox I, p.255 (both listing the first ed. London, 1753); Kress 5268; Goldsmiths 8810. "Hanway was a wellknown traveller and philanthropist, popularly remembered as the pioneer user of the umbrella. (...) As a partner of a St. Petersburg merchant, he made a journey in 1743 down the Volga and by the Caspian Sea to Persia with a caravan of woolen goods, and returned in 1745 by the same route after many perilous adventures" (Cox I, p.255).