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Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the country of Poland : along the southern shores of the Baltic
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Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the country of Poland : along the southern shores of the Baltic / by Robert Johnston, A.M. ; illustrated with maps and numerous coloured plates ; dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.
Published
London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall-Mall, 1815.
Physical Description
[2], vii, [1], 460 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 31 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in later brown half morocco and brown cloth.
Notes
Aquatint engravings by Henry Edward Dawe, Charles J. Canton, Frederick Christian Lewis, Joshua Gleadah, Charles Williams, John Hill, and T. Cartwright; after Robert Johnston.
Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Contents of the plates: Copenhagen
Hamburg
Stralsund
Monastery of Olivia
Frauensberg
Tilsit
Cronstadt Boatmen
Casan church
Hermitage
Igiora, a village near St. Petersburg
Flying Mountain
Bronnitzi
Females in the Govt of Novogorod
A Russian village near Moscow
Moscow
Kremlin
Borodino
Smolensko
Lithuanian Jewess
Borisoff
(Five wood-engravings of ploughs)
Map of the north west part of Europe
Map of the north west part of Russia.
References
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 286
Hardie, M. English coloured books, p. 141-2
Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, p. 227, 341
Cat. Russica, No. J557
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 15
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1815.
Wood engravings - 1815.
Engravings - Hand-colored - 1815.
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