A New and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern:  including All the late important Discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations, in the different Hemispheres, and containing a Genuine History and Description of the Whole World,. Together with a complete History of every Empire, Kingdom, and State. I-II.

BANKES, THOMAS

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2 vol.,[2], 460, [2], 461-990, [2]pp., 2 engraved frontispieces, 109 engraved plates (12 folding), contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, green and red morocco labels to spines, folio, London, For C. Cook, [1790?]

 Bankes' handsomely illustrated compendium of mostly eighteenth-century voyages, with over 100 pages describing the new discoveries in ?New Holland?, with three folding maps, updated to include an expedition to Botany Bay "with a particular description of Port Jackson, where the convicts are now settled" undertaken in 1787-1788. There is also several maps and information of New South Wales, Norfolk Island, New Zealand and other Pacific Islands alongside those of Captain Cook's three voyages to the Pacific. Further sections deal with explorations in China, Japan, the Middle East, East Indies, Africa, and America. 

[ESTC T173389].

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• Title: A New and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern: including All the late important Discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations, in the different Hemispheres, and containing a Genuine History and Description of the Whole World,. Together with a complete History of every Empire, Kingdom, and State. I-II.
• Condition: Very Good