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JOHNSTON, Robert. Travels through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic. London: J.J. Stockdale, 1815 (paper watermarked 1814). 4to (298 x 237 mm). Half–title, list of plates leaf present (commonly lacking). 20 colored aquatints including frontispiece, 2 engraved maps, wood–engraved plate, wood–engraved vignette in text (some offsetting from plates to text). Borisoff plate facing p. 354 with corrected title pasted over the printer’s error of title caption. Contemporary maroon calf, marbled boards, all edges marbled (neatly rebacked, boards gently rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Birchwood (contemporary signature on title). FIRST EDITION, of Johnston’s journey from St. Petersburg through Moscow to Smolensk. Abbey, Travel 15; Tooley 286.