The Present State of Russia … [vol. I:] Being an account of the Government of that Country, both Civil and Ecclesiastical; of the Czar's Forces by Sea and Land, the Regulation of his Finances … Translated from the High-Dutch [vol. II:] … containing, 1. Laurence Lange’s Journey from Petersbourg to Peking in China. II. John Bernhard Muller’s Description of the Ostiacks, a nation in Siberia … VI. M. Le Brun’s Observations on his Journey through Russia to Persia

London: printed for W. Taylor [and others], 1723. First edition. 1 large folding map of Russia, 1 large folding plan of St. Petersburg, both in vol.I. (Repairs to clean tears or splits in map and plan, some spotting). [i-xlviii; 1-] 352; [1-] 432 pp. + 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear of vol.II. 2 vols. 8vo (7 1⁄2 x 4 1.2 inches). Contemporary paneled calf, 19th-century lettering-pieces to spines labels. Joints split and repaired, spines darkened, dried and split. Provenance: Thomas Western (Clare College, Cambridge, armorial bookplate in each volume, signature in vol. I, by descent ); Charles Callis Western, 1st Baron Western (9 August 1767-4 November 1844, created baron in 1833, Felix Hall library label, Kelvedon, Essex). First edition. 1 large folding map of Russia, 1 large folding plan of St. Petersburg, both in vol.I. (Repairs to clean tears or splits in map and plan, some spotting). [i-xlviii; 1-] 352; [1-] 432 pp. + 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear of vol.II. 2 vols. 8vo (7 1⁄2 x 4 1.2 inches). A country house library copy: Lord Western bought Felix Hall inabout 1790. Western in the early nineteenth century made additions there in classical style, to create a modern mansion. Cox I, p. 193. ("This work contains also Lange and Le Brun, 'Travels through Russia to China and Siberia'.")