Published by Printed for W. Peacock and Sons, Salisbury-Square, Fleet-Street; By C. Rickaby, Peterborough-Court, London, 1804
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Add to basket8vo. 3.5 x 5.25 inches. 40 + unpaginated [408] pp. Bound in original tree calf with gilt borders; Spine in compartments, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon morocco title label. Marbled endpapers. Extremities a little worn but otherwise a fine crisp copy. Illustrated by 8 folding hand coloured maps, including frontispiece and folding chart of the solar system. A world gazetteer with attractive hand coloured maps of the continents and of Polynesia; the south coast of Australia has yet to be charted. The first edition of this title was published in 1793. This third edition is scarce and COPAC records only two copies at Oxford and the National Library of Wales. TOPOGRAPHY GAZETTEER TOPOGRAPHY FOLDING MAPS 19TH CENTURY TOPOGRAPHY.