Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Dannemarc, &c. & augmenté d'un voyage en Norvège par Mr. P.H. Mallet

First French edition published simultaneously with a 2-volume quarto edition by the same publisher, expanded with Mallet's journey to Norway. The first English edition appeared in London in 1784. The illustration comprises 12 folding maps and plans (Poland, Russia, Caspian Sea, Denmark), 4 portraits engraved by Topfler (Stanislas Auguste, Catherine II, Pugat Chef, Gustav III) and 3 folding plates including one of costume (Swedish man and woman) and one relating to ornithology. A fifth volume was formed as an atlas, with 11 bound folding maps, the twelfth map of the Caspian Sea is found in volume 3.
Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label, volume label in a green morocco medallion. Large brown dampstain on the first third of the bindings. Joints of volumes 1 and 2 split at foot for 1 cm, then narrowly cracked. Upper joints of volumes 3 and 4 split at foot. Upper joint of volume 5 split at foot. Traces of pale dampstains and humidity in lower margin of volume 4, slightly on some gatherings of volume 1. Title pages of volumes 2, 3 and 4 with browned margins, the title page of volume 3 with hole through the author's name. Missing half-titles of volumes 1, 2, and 4. Traces of dampstaining on the atlas maps. A 10 cm tear from the margin on the map of European Russia. Missing the notice consisting of 2 leaves normally placed after the preface.
English historian, Coxe traveled to the Northern countries in 1778 and 1779. The sections on Sweden and Denmark are particularly interesting, the author concerning himself with the political system, demographics, religion, commerce. The chapters on Poland are more historical, Coxe drawing the portrait of Poland's revolutions.