Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Dannemarc, &c. Traduit de l'anglais, enrichi de notes & des éclaircissemens nécessaires, & augmenté d'un Voyage en Norvège. Par P.H. Mallet. Ouvrage orné de cartes géographiques, portraits, plans & figures en taille-douce.

4 vol., 8vo: xii-380, [4]-404, [4]-393-[1 bl.], [4]-303-[1 bl.] pp. (some min. browning & spotting, ms. corrections on French titles).

Cont. quarter sheep (corners sl. rubbed), marbl. paper on covers, gilt flat spines (sl. rubbed, joints rubbed), marbl. edges. Good copy.

8vo edition (after a 4to in 1786) of this translation of "Travels into Poland, Sweden and Denmark" (London 1784) of the English traveller and historian William Coxe (1747-1828). Ill. (complete) with 19 engr. pl.: 5 partly hand-coloured fold. maps (Poland, Russia, Caspian Sea, Sweden, Denmark), 7 partly hand-col. fold. plans (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Vishnei-Voloshok Canal, Stockholm, Canal of Trolhoetta, Copenhagen & Kiel Canal), 4 portr. (Stanislas II Augustus of Poland, Catherine II, Pugachev & Gustav III of Sweden) and 3 other pl. (birds, cyrillic writing and costumes). The work mainly concerns Russia; the part on Norway was written by the Swiss P.-H. Mallet (1730-1807), former professor of French linguistics & literature in Denmark. Bookpl. T. de Valenzi. Ref. Cox I, p. 186. - Not in Chadenat. - Bn-Opale plus. - COPAC.