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
1803
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101691.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates : ill., maps (some folded, some coloured) : 4to. Pencil ticks against list of plates. 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 spine; spine lettered direct (gilt-tooled): 'Pallas' Travels Vol. 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 endpaper: 'J. Adams. Binder. Wilmington Sq. W.C.'.
Makers and roles
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) , author Francis William Blagdon (1778-1819), translator