first edition Leather bound
1764 · Glocester
by (KRASCHENINNIKOV, Stepan Petrovich) Translated by James Grieve, M.D.
Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty, 1764. First Edition. Leather bound. Good+. 4to. Pp. (4), vii, 280, (8). English Translation by James Grieve. With all five plates accounted for, with four of them folding, and the two folding maps. Index. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco over contemporary calf boards with new endpapers. Spine with red morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt flourishes in compartments. The preliminaries with dampstaining to bottom edge, and lower fore-edge, picking up sporadically through text block, but not affecting plates or maps. Binders tag and armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport on the front (truncated)