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First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 461 pages, 3 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes: Original pages reproduced intact two per page; Includes documents translated from Slavonian and Russian languages; Includes bibliography; Includes index. Contents: The present state and regulations of the Church of Russia. Facsim. of : edition published. 1729. Subjects: Peter I, Tsar of Russia; Russia History Peter I, 1689-1725 ; Sources; Soviet Union History Peter I, 1689-1725 Sources. 3 Kg.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). Illustrated with engraved plates by Thomas Bewick, this is Matthew Consett's very scarce account of his pioneering journey to northern Lapland, and Scandinavia. The second edition of this very scarce work, which was first published earlier the same year in Stockton. This London re-issue of the Stockton edition has a cancel title page. A fascinating and detailed account of the travels of an Englishman in Scandinavia and northern Europe, relayed in a series of letters. Consett was the first Englishman to visit the northern part of Lapland. Illustrated with seven engraved plates - one featuring two images - from Thomas Bewick, including depictions of Tornio in Finland, Snow Grouse, and the women of Lapland. This was one of a few Thomas Bewick works in which he used copper engravings. Collated, complete. ESTC T75356 A4, a4, B-X4. Collated, complete. The text was actually ghostwritten by a young clergyman, John Brewster of Stockton, on the basis of notes taken by Consett and two of his friends during theirouting to Sweden. In a straight grain morocco binding. Minor losses of calf to back strip head and tail. Front joint and rear joint head and tail starting, with boards firmly held. Endpapers renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with the odd spot, most concentrated to perimeters of plates. Good. book.

First edition, a collection of Russian documents in English translation, all serving the compiler's attempt to cement the reputation of Peter the Great (who had died four years earlier) as a great leader and reformer. Thomas Consett was the first Anglican priest of the "British Factory", the association of British merchants who were resident in Russia. He spoke Russian, established a reputation as a scholar, built a vast Russian library, and moved in circles close to Peter, whom he was a great admirer of. Through these circles he accessed information not just ecclesiastic and scholarly, but also relating to political matters, making him a valued correspondent of the British government. The book was published with a clear purpose, using the printing of original documents to establish the place of Peter the Great as a revolutionary leader in Russia's history. "I have thought it for the purpose to lay a sure foundation of future history, by drawing out of the language of the country some authentick records which will, and must be allow'd to be proper materials for historians to work with hereafter, and which yet might have been lost or neglected" (p. ii). His collection includes Peter's Spiritual Regulation of 1721, which abolished the patriarchate and replaced it with the Holy Synod, and additional ecclesiastical regulations. Also included is a contemporary biography of Peter, documents relating to his death and funeral, and an account of his development of the Russian navy. ESTC T130057. See Anthony Cross, Cambridge - Some Russian Collections: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 26 February 1987, CUP, 1987. 2 parts in 1 vol. as issued, octavo (194 x 116 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco label. Complete with errata, divisional title and contents leaf. Occasional light foxing and browning but generally clean. A very good copy.

With an Accurate Map of the Caspian Sea. lxxvi, 455 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Recent dark calf, red morocco label. Fine With an Accurate Map of the Caspian Sea. lxxvi, 455 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.