Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. / Translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, ... In two volumes. With many coloured vignettes, plates and maps.
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811)
Category
Books
Date
1802 - 1803
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101691
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., maps (some folded, some coloured) : 4to. Vol. 2 published 1803. Imperfect: wanting v. 1, pp. ix-xvi ('Explanation of the plates and vignettes contained in the first volume'). Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso of vol. 1: "2 vols 12.12.0 net"; booksellers' codes in pencil in vol. 1 on title page: "c/m" and rear free endpaper: "e/my/-". Pencil ticks against list of plates in vol. 2. Ephemera: typescript catalogue card loosely inserted in vol. 1. Provenance: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Andrew Pears, Spring Grove, Isleworth.'. Historic shelfmark in pencil on Pears bookplate: "H1: 472 / Glass 7". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco, multiple gilt and two thick blind fillets to form a border; sewn onto five recessed cords; five raised bands; gilt fillets on spines; spines lettered direct (gilt-tooled): 'Pallas' Travels Vol. I[-II].'; gilt rolled board edges; double gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on verso of front free endpapers: 'J. Adams. Binder. Wilmington Sq. W.C.'.
Makers and roles
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) , author Francis William Blagdon (1778-1819), translator