An historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea : With the Authors journal of Travel from England through russia into Persia: And back through Russia, Germany and Holland. To Which are added: The revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. Vol. I Only
Dublin: William Smith and Richard James, 1754. First Irish Edition. Octavo, xxiii, [4], 588, [18] pages, bound in period full leather with gilt-lettered label to spine. Illustrated with seven folding plates, one double-page plate, and three single-page plates. Now housed in an archival box. First Irish edition of Jonas Hanway’s important eighteenth-century account of British commerce, travel, and political affairs in Russia, Persia, and the Caspian region. *An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea* combines Hanway’s firsthand travel narrative with extensive observations on Anglo-Russian and Persian trade, geography, diplomacy, military affairs, and the turbulent history of Persia during the rise of Nadir Shah, or Nadir Kouli. Hanway traveled through Russia and Persia in connection with British commercial interests, and his work remains a significant contemporary source for the history of the Caspian trade, eighteenth-century Iran, imperial Russia, overland travel, and European commercial expansion into Central Asia and the Middle East. Richly illustrated with engraved plates and folding views, the work is of particular interest to collectors of early travel literature, exploration, Persia and Iran, Russia, the Caspian Sea, economic history, maritime and overland commerce, Oriental studies, and eighteenth-century British travel writing. Some water damage at the rear of the volume, rubbing and wear, corners bumped, the double page plate is detached, one section of pages nearly detached, a few tears and losses to the folding plates, formerly an institutionally held copy with some of the typical markings, some discoloration and foxing, previous owner's inscription to title, else in good + condition. Item #595
Price: $350.00