New Complete Authentic System Universal (19 results)
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Published by British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
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Published by British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
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Published by Thomas Kelly by Weed and Rider, 1822
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Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United KingdomNeo Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Volume I & II (Complete) 1/4 Leather, wear to covers and spine, corners bumped and worn, surface of leather worn on edges and surface of corners, top and bottom of spine a little worn, spines a little faded and surface of leather worn, rip / crack at top of spine of volume II join with cove…r 7.5cm, wear to surface of covers, volume I more so, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing, some light foxing and a few small marks and stains, some wear to edges, a few small nicks and rips, all plates present and in good condition. The price includes postage and packing to a UK Mainland address, due to the weight (5.5kg) there will be an additional charge to everywhere else, please ask for a quote.
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Published by C Cooke, London, 1802
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Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New ZealandAnah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (c. 1802). Without the Directions for placing the Engravings, 25 folding engraved maps with hand-colouring, 83 engraved plates. This set contains 7 (of 8) of the Additional Engravings listed for the Fine Edition. Book I (to p.364) covers New Discoveries in the Great Pacific Ocean and the section…on Hawaii is illustrated with plates after Webber including The Death of Cook. A very handsome copy with beautiful contemporary patterned calf binding.
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Published by J Cooke, London, 1787
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Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New ZealandAnah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp. 990, including index. Complete with 92 plates, 2 damaged on inner margin, 20 maps. Robustly recased sympathetically in matching brown calf with the original spine and label. Handsomely bound in one volume. Over 100 pages deal with the new discoveries in 'New Holland' with three folding maps i…ncluding a fine fold-out map of the recent discoveries, including Botany Bay, New South Wales, also New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and other Pacific islands. Further sections deal with Asia, China, Turkey, America etc.
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Published by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool, 1817
Seller: Antiquariat Düwal, Berlin, GermanyAntiquariat Düwal
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4to (27 x 22 cm). Mit 2 gest. Front., 25 kolorierten gef. Kupferkarten u. 52 Kupfertaf. XX, 816, 768 S., 2 Bl. Ldr. d. Zeit m. blindgeprägt. Deckeln u. u. Rücken. Wohl 1802 zuerst erschienene universale Weltgeschichte mit Reisen und Entdeckungen mit zahlreichen Illustrationen. Seltene Ausgabe aus diesem Verlag (nicht bei KVK, da… kein Tafelverzeichnis vorliegt, kann Vollständigkeit nicht garantiert werden, es sind aber offensichtlich keine Seiten oder Tafeln entfernt worden). - Einbände stärker lädiert, Fehlstelle am Rücken v. Bd. 2, Vordergelenk dort angebrochen. Wenige Bl. verknickt, nur im Rande etw. stockfleckig, sonst vorwiegend sauber u. wohlerhalten. gr.
More imagesPublished by R. Morison and Son, Edinburgh, 1796
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Seller: Scrivener's Books and Bookbinding, Derbyshire, United KingdomScrivener's Books and Bookbinding
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Vellum. Condition: Good. Vol 2 of two volume set. Rebound in full leather withoriginal leather panel onlaid to front cover. Rounded corners. Raised bands to spine with titles in gilt on red leather label. Title-page fragile and edges grubby. Appears to be two vols bound together: first vol pages 590 - 888 and second vol, without… title-page, pages 1 - 304. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Printed for J Cooke 17 Paternoster Row, 1790
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Seller: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, United KingdomCastle Hill Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 1 only No date, presumed 1790, iv + 460pp, lacking all plates and maps, title page creased, odd mark in text. Smartly bound in recent brown cloth, leather spine label, new endpapers; Quarto.
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Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United KingdomBarter Books Ltd
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Brown hardback leather cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition. Cover worn with loss to leather. Front board loose. Worming (extinct) to prelims. Occasional foxing and marks. 390mm x 260mm (15" x 10"). 990pp, [vi] + plates. 90 b/w plates + 18 b/w maps (8 fold-out). . And Containing a Complete Genuine History and D…escription of the Whole World, . with an Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of Navigation throughout the Known World. 2 volumes bouns as 1. William Cooper His Booke. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas.
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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, Char…ts, &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.
More imagesNew, Complete, and Universal Body, or System of NATURAL HISTORY; Being a Grand, Accurate, and Extensive DISPLAY OF ANIMATED NATURE Containing accurate descriptions and faithful histories of all the several classes of animals, which inhabit the Air, the Earth, and the Water, in the several parts of the world. Including an authentic account of all the infinite variety of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, and amphibious creatures, such as frogs, lizards, serpents, etc. And other animals, too numerous to mention in a title page.
Written by a Society of Gentlemen; George Henry Millar, editor
Published by Printed for Alex. Hogg (Alexander Hogg), London, 1785
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- First Edition
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.Frey Fine Books
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Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Folio, 618, (ii), illustrated with 85 copper engraved plates (including the frontispiece). Rebound in mid-20th century quarter leather and cloth over boards. Some uneven sunning to the leather spine. Some minor age-toning to the pages, with some offsettin…g from the plates to the pages opposite. One plate with a small tear to the margin, with small loss; page 77 with a missing corner effecting 6 lines of text. An attractive binding, with an appropriate style of binding for this period. Published in 60 parts. Frontispiece (dated Oct. 29, 1785) and illustrations by various engravers. Not all of the plates are numbered, and they are not in consecutive order, as mentioned in the directions to the binders. Page 618 lists 60 numbered plates and 25 unnumbered ones. Signatures: [A] B-7R . Printed in double columns. Publisher's monogram on title page. "Directions to the book-binder": page 618; ."List of the subscribers": pages [619]-[620]. Wonderfully illustrated plates, of not only animals and plants, but of Human anatomy and even samples of Human emotion. Page 421 mentions the presence of insects in amber.
Published by J. Cooke, London, 1787
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- First Edition
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, AustraliaArapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex
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Hard Cover. Condition: G+. First Edition. Undated, but 1787-1788. 2 vols. Elephant Folio. original full calf gilt, spine labels (rubbed & worn, rebacked with original spines laid-down, hinges slackening, cloth tape strengthening to hinges, both volumes, some chipping to leather, amateurish repairs, internally clean & complete);…pp. [iv], 1-460, with frontispiece, 94 plates (full-page, 1/2 page &1/4 page) on 51 sheets, 6 folding maps/charts + 1 full page; [ii (title, last blank)], 461-990 (page 663 erroneously labelled 635), [4 (list of Subscribers), misbound between p.988 & 989], 2 [Directions to the Binder for placing the cuts]), with 70 plates (full-page & 1/2 page) on 39 sheets, 6 folding maps/charts + 10 full page (see Alan Frost in La Trobe Journal No. 8, October 1971 for a history of the book, highlighting differences in content and pagination between editions). Very heavy set (9 kg), additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good copy of an early issue, intact but would benefit from some restoration. Ex-libris Charles Scobie (ANARE, Macquarie Island, 1948), with his ownership signature and date (29-5-1941) to rear pastedown.
More imagesA New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography
Thomas Bankes; Edward Warren Blake; Alexander Cook; Thomas Bowen [Illustrator]
Published by Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row, 1789
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis, 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings, 17 single engraving plates, 9 single leaf maps, 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good, front board detached.… Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout, affecting a few plates, tanning to margins, a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827, affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn, lacking almost half, with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold, tears; The Chart map, maps of Africa, North America, Italy, Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears, restored by an earlier hand. Sold by subscription, with list of subscribers at rear. No edition stated, presumed to be the 2nd edition, printed 1789-1790 (1787-1788 was the 1st ed). This book went through 6 editions in the 1790s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colonization of New Holland. The book is divided along geographical lines. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific, Cook's voyages and Australia (New Holland). ESTC N42026. Sold with all faults. Contents: (5)-106 Book I, New Discoveries, (107)-314, Book II, Asia, (315)-460, Book III, Africa, (461)-576, Book IV, America, (577)-944 Book V, Europe, 944-947, Supplement, 947-948, Origin and Progress of the Art of Navigation, (949)-953, A General Table of Coins, (954)-959 A New Geographical Table, (960) The Superficial Contents of the Globe, (961)-980 A Guide to Geography, (981)-990 Index, + 2 pp. Directions to the Binder, + 2 pp. A List of Subscribers. For collation / edition history see: Alan Frost, Thomas Bankes's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria, No 8. Oct. 1971. Prescott, A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780-1830, p. 242. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
More imagesNew, Royal, and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern; All the late, important Discoveries, made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations, in the different Hemispheres, from the celebrated Columbus, the first Discoverer of America, to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook, &c. And Containing a Genuine History and Description of the hole World, etc. etc. Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; a Complete Atlas, to which is added a complete Guide to Geography, Astronomy, the Use of the Globes, Maps, &c. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable Discovery throughout the Whole of Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World,. Also containing a Particular Account of the Pelew Islands and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of BOTANY BAY; with a particular Description of PORT JACKSON, where the convicts are now settled.
BANKES, Thomas, of Monmouth, BLAKE, Edward Warren, COOK, Alexander and LLOYD, Thomas.
Published by Printed for C. Cook. London. ?. 2 volumes. Large folio, 1787
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United KingdomPatrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB
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pp. (ii), 460; (ii), (461)-970, (ii) Directions to Binder. 22 engraved maps, some folding, by THOMAS BOWEN and 90 engraved plates. Lacking 9 maps [New Discoveries : World : World Chart : Africa : Europe : South America : Great Britain : Asia : Russian Empire] and both frontispieces and 1 plate, with 2 plates erroneously listed.…Contemporary calf worn but joints intact, final text leaf to v.I lacking lower half, one other text leaf torn across without loss, a few corners torn, 2 plates damaged with loss at the top margin, occasional marginal tear and loss, offered as a good reading copy.
Published by circa 1790, 1790
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, AustraliaBerkelouw Rare Books
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Complete and Genuine History and Description of the Whole World; .Together with a concise History of every Empire, Kingdom and State. .London: C. Cooke, (circa 1790). 2 vols. in one. Thick folio. Later full reverse calf. Spine with raised bands and morocco titling label. (iv, 460, ii, 461-990, 6pp.). Complete with 2 frontispiece…s, 88 full-page engrv. plates, and 21 fold. engrv. maps. Occasional light foxing mostly confined to the blank margins, otherwise a generally fine copy entirely complete with the 6 pp. Index at end. 1st edition of this richly illustrated work recording updates from various voyages including Capt. James Cook's final voyage of 1776-1780. Ferguson 59.
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Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerThree important Alexander Hogg engravings of New South Wales, in a disbound chapter, complete in itself. This is the chapter on Australia with subheadings: 'New Holland' (Australia), 'New South Wales', 'Botany Bay', 'Port Jackson', 'Late Accounts respecting the colony at Port Jackson, as far as Dec. 16, 1791', and 'Norfolk Islan…d'. Includes three important Alexander Hogg copper plate engravings: 1. "A View in Port Jackson, New South Wales", T. Webley sculp, Pub. by Alexr. Hogg May 1, 1793. This engraving was first used to illustrate the title page for 'Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales', by Surgeon General John White, published in London in 1790. It depicts indigenous Australians involved in fishing, with one of the canoes with a fire burning inside on a flat stone, so that fish could be cooked as soon as it was caught. Trove 47997. 2. "Captains Hunter, Collins & Johnston, with Governor Phillip, Surgeon White, & c. Visiting a Distressed Female Native of New South Wales, at a Hut near Port Jackson" (published by Alexr. Hogg). Trove 7890412. 3. "A Man, woman & Children of New South Wales", Drawn from a Sketch taken on the Spot, Goldar, sculp, published by Alexr. Hogg. After the engraving by William Blake in 'An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island' by John Hunter. Trove 8953998. Disbound section, complete in itself, 4to, pages 9 - 32, with 3 full page b&w plates. A four inch tear at p 19; the third plate detached, slt dusty at edges, o/w very good. We cannot ascertain what this is disbound from, but appears not to be from Bankes or Millar, as it measures only 26.5 cm tall.
More imagesSeller: Bruce Marshall Rare Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomBruce Marshall Rare Books
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Condition: Very Good. 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 p…ages 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].
