The memoirs and travels of Mauritius Augustus count de Benyowsky… / translated by William Nicholson, edited by Captain Pasfield Oliver (The Adventure Series). — London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.

Accession Number: LIB-2701.2021

Category: Books

Hardcover volume in 8vo, 21.2 x 15.4 cm, tan cloth with black on gilt background circular publisher’s device "TFU" to front cover, gilt-stamped compartments and burgundy labels with gilt lettering to spine. Ink inscription to fep verso dated Jan 18, 1907. Publisher's device and serial device to h.t.

Title-page: ❦❦❦ THE MEMOIRS AND | TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY | IN SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, JAPAN, THE LIUKIU ISLANDS AND FORMOSA | FROM THE TRANSLATION OF HIS | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (1741–1771), | BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, F.R.S., 1790 | EDITED BY CAPTAIN | PASFIELD OLIVER | ILLUSTRATED | LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, | PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCIII ❦❦❦ ||.

Collation/Pagination: [1]-25plus 7 plates, incl. frontispiece and 1 map. [1, 2] – serial h.t. "The Adventure Series" / advert. THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s. 17 titles, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, [5] 6-9 contents, [10] blank, [11, 12] illustrations/blank, [13] 14-52 introduction, 53-399, [400] colophon: THE GRESHAM PRESS, | URWIN BROTHERS, | CHILWORTH AND LONDON.

Contributors:

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin (London); Thomas Fisher Unwin (British, 1848 – 1935).

Author: Maurice Auguste count de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786).

Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907).

Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815).

Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris by Buisson; see LIB-2742.2021.

For another copy of the same edition, see LIB-3139.2023. For the 1904 edition, see LIB-2703.2021.

Additional Information

Collection Library
Type / Purpose Book
Country Great Britain
Period 19 AD , Late 19th century
Language English
Media/Technique Paper
Subject Adventurers , Adventures , Autobiography , Biography , Description and travel , Exiles , History , Literature , Madagascar , Memoirs , Penal labor , Siberia (Russia) , Travel , Voyages and Travels
Creation / Publishing year 1893
Edition 2nd edition
Binding Cloth , Hardcover
Size 21 x 14.5 cm , 8vo
Signature Inscription
Acquisition year 2013

Please confirm your age

This item is in the Erotica category. Please confirm that you are 18 or older to continue.