An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian sea : with a journal of travels from London through Russia into Persia, and back through Russia, Germany and Holland : to which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli : in four volumes : vol. I[-II] [sic] / by Jonas Hanway, merchant.

Volume 1: Inscription visible on another paste-down beneath current front paste-down: "S. [...] Exeter"; letterpress bookplate visible below armorial bookplate on front paste-down: "S. Woolmer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder, and printseller, Fore-Street, Exeter [...]" (this is Shirley Woolmer senior, the printer, bookseller, stationer, and author); engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down: "Sir Cha[rle]s Grave Hudson, of Wanlip, in the County of Leicester, Bar[one]t" (this is the nobleman and director of the South Sea Company, who lived from 1730 to 1813); two inscriptions at head of title page: "Club Book, 1753" and "C"; words crossed out on leaf C4v; notes in pencil on leaf Y2v; marginal markings on leaf 2I2r; typescript bookseller's slip found between leaves L1v and L2r, with notes in pencil, including "$15.00" (now available in MSS 466).

Volume 2: Engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down: "Sir Cha[rle]s Grave Hudson, of Wanlip, in the County of Leicester, Bar[one]t"; pencil inscription at head of title page: "C."

Volume 3: Engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down: "Sir Cha[rle]s Grave Hudson, of Wanlip, in the County of Leicester, Bar[one]t"; cropped inscription at head of title page: "Club Book"; pencil inscription at head of title page: "C".

Volume 4: Engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down: "Sir Cha[rle]s Grave Hudson, of Wanlip, in the County of Leicester, Bar[one]t"; inscription at head of leaf [a]1r (partially cropped): "Club Book"; pencil inscription at head of title page: "C"; scrap of rough laid paper found between leaves [a]4v and b1r (removed, and now available in MSS 466).

MSU: Volume 1: Damage to title page slightly affects two words of title; lacking two plates ("The great bell at Mosco" and "Astrabad Bay in the S.E. corner of the Caspian"); print outs of scans of these plates from the British Library copy available in MSS 466.

MSU: Volume 2: Lacking all but three plates; print outs of scans of lacking plates from the British Library copy available in MSS 466.

MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 275.

Bound uniformly in full contemporary calf; rebacked in later calf; boards and spine tooled in gilt; outer edges of boards tooled in blind; red leather spine label, tooled in gilt and with "Hanway's Travels" lettered in gilt; green leather spine label, tooled and stamped in gilt, and with volume number in gilt; edges speckled red; volume 3 includes a green silk page-marker.