JOHNSTON - TRAVELS THROUGH RUSSIA AND POLAND 1815 - includes 20 hand-colored plates Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland

JOHNSTON Robert - Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; along the Southern Shores of the Baltic. Illustrated with maps and numerous coloured plates. Dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. London 1815; printed for J. J. Stockdale. 4, pp. VII, [1], XIV, [15]-460, plates 21 [including 20 in color], maps 2. Period cloth binding(after a small restoration). Contemporary closed case - dimensions in case 29x5cm.VERY NICE STATE OF PRESERVATION.
Description of a journey from Gdansk atthe beginning of the 19th century through Klaipeda, Kronstadt, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Borodino, Smolensk, Grodno, Minsk, Augustow, Ostroleka, Warsaw, Lowicz, Poznan, Frankfurt to Berlin. On the plates color views of Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stralsund, Oliva, Frombork, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Borodino, Smolensk, among others. In the text, one woodcut showing a mammoth skeleton kept in a museum in St. Petersburg.