[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, London, 1756-58, 4to, 4 engraved plates, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other works in 5 volumes. (6)

[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)].  A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. with Miscellaneous Thoughts, Moral and Religious; In a Series of Sixty-Four Letters: Addressed to two Ladies of the Partie. To which is added, to An Essay on Tea, Considered as Pernicious to Health, Obstructing Industry, and Impoverishing the Nation: With an Account of its Growth, and great Consumption in these Kingdoms. With Several Political Reflections; and Thoughts on Public Love. In Twenty-Five Letters to the same Ladies. By a Gentleman of the Partie. London: Printed by H. Woodfall, 1756-58. 4to (264 x 210mm). Engraved frontispiece, and 3 further engraved plates or "frontispieces", one engraved illustration, one sectional title page printed in red and black (some plates offset onto text, some leaves lightly stained and/or browned). Contemporary speckled calf (recornered and rebacked with modern old-style spine, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: John Cornwall (armorial bookplate); "London 28 Feb. 1756" (inscription of that date at the foot of p.361). FIRST EDITION of this eclectic travelogue which, in addition to describing the folklore and topography en route - including, notably, Stonehenge ("the St. Paul's of the Druids") - also includes a diatribe against the iniquities of drinking tea, an unusual form of temperance; furthermore, it includes three letters on the subject of the "Marine Society", founded by the author in 1756, the first of which is titled, "On Occasion of their clothing for the Sea 3097 Men, and 2045 Boys ...." Cox I, p.19; Gibson's Library p.144; Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. With 3 other miscellaneous works in 5 volumes, namely William Camden's The History of the most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England ... The Third Edition (London, 1675, folio, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary speckled calf, yellow edges, rubbed, rebacked preserving old worn spine, later endpapers), James Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World (London,  1777, 2 volumes., 4to, LACKING ALL THE PLATES except for the portrait frontispiece in the first volume, contemporary calf, repaired) and Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds (Newcastle, 1797-1804, 2 volumes, large 8vo (230 x 140mm), wood-engraved illustrations by Bewick, contemporary calf, rebacked, FIRST EDITION, on - according to a pencil note on the endpaper - "large paper"). (6)