A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake, Alexander Cook, Thomas Lloyd, Embellished with nearly Two Hundred Engravings, consisting of Views, Antiquities, Customs, Ceremonies, besides Whole Sheet Maps, Plans, Charts, &c. Executed in a much superior stile than any Thing that has ever appeared in this Kingdom.
Published by C. Cooke, 1790
- Hardcover
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
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A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern… Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake, Alexander Cook, Thomas Lloyd, Embellished with nearly Two Hundred Engravings, consisting of Views, Antiquities, Customs, Ceremonies, besides Whole Sheet Maps, Plans, Charts, &c. Executed in a much superior stile than any Thing that has ever appeared in this Kingdom. Printed for C. Cooke, London, circa 1790, Volume I: 1-460 pp, Volume II: 460-990 pp, full original leather, 15.5 x 10.25”, elephant folios. In good condition. Spines handsomely rebacked with original spine labels reattached. Very nice and sturdy. Light wear to extremities with moderate scuffing to corners. Original leather is peeling along edges. A fine leather was used for this binding. Remnants from a bookplate on pastedowns. Interiors are bright and clean. Light offsetting from plates with minor instance of age stain. Free of known markings. Lacking map of West Indies 517 pp, Map of United States, 492 pp. all else complete. Folding maps are in good working order. Internally fresh and attractively bound. A solid set. Please see photos. Early edition. Collated, not quite complete. This book went through six editions in the 1790’s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colony of New Holland. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific, Cook’s Voyages, and Australia (New Holland). Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook’s voyages, and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest including the Salish, Tasmania, New Zealand, Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time.…
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- Title
- A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake, Alexander Cook, Thomas Lloyd, Embellished with nearly Two Hundred Engravings, consisting of Views, Antiquities, Customs, Ceremonies, besides Whole Sheet Maps, Plans, Charts, &c. Executed in a much superior stile than any Thing that has ever appeared in this Kingdom.
- Author
- Bankes, Thomas
- Publisher
- C. Cooke
- Publication year
- 1790
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
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Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore.
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The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Inc. (Rare Books Division)
3401 North Sixth Street
Harrisburg, PA U.S.A. 17110
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Chosen as Publishers Weekly's 2023 Bookstore of the Year! Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore. ... A buyer is eligible to receive a full refund if a book is not in the condition described.
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