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Philadelphia: John Conrad & Co, 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. VOLUME ONE ONLY! Full leather boards, octavo, 520pp., not illustrated, no maps. Book has expected wear and rubbing to boards and spine, slight flare to boards, mild scuffing to rear bottom corner, joints worn but holding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, mild dampstaining to edges of endpapers, text foxed and toned throughout. No DJ.
MODERN GEOGRAPHY A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; in all Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations by Pinkerton, John - 1804
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MODERN GEOGRAPHY A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; in all Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations
by Pinkerton, John
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Philadelphia: John Conrad & Co.. G+/NONE. 1804. Later Printing. Hardcover. Both volumes are full leather. Red spine titles still present and clear. Wear and spotting to leather and some interior foxing. The top corner of the second volume appears to have been "chewed" by some animal in the past. No text is affected. Maps not present. Priced accordingly. ; 8vo; Two volumes (520 pp + 698 pp. ) . Set is quite scarce. This appears to be the second edition (with the first appearing in 1802 ) . .
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Modern Geography. A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; In All Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations. Digested on a New Plan--Vol. I [VOLUME ONE ONLY]
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Modern Geography. A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; in all Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations. Digested on a new Plan. By John Pinkerton. The Astronomical Introduction by the Rev. S Vince, A.M. F.R.S. and Plumian Professor of Astronomy, and Experimental Philosophy, in the University of Cambridge. With Numerous Maps, Revised by the Author. To the whole are added, a Catalogue of the best Maps, and Books of Travels and Voyages, in all Languages: And an ample Index. A New Edition, Greatly Enlarged. In Three Volumes.
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London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, et al., c. 1807. Final leaf of first volume loose, minor offsetting. Otherwise, in good condition. . Edition: New Edition, Binding: Lacks the boards, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands, gilt motifs encased in gilt-tooled borders, black morocco labels on two and three. , Size: 4to, Illustration: Complete with 50 maps and a folding chart, divided as follows: Volume 1 with double page map of the world’s hemispheres as frontispiece, a folding chart, and 21 other maps; Volume 2 with double page Mercator projection map as frontispiece and 10 other maps, one of which being double-page; Volume 3 with 17 maps. NB: The first volume lists Portugal and Spain’s maps on separate lines, but they refer to only one map: although it may seem that 51 maps are called for, the complete number is 50., Volume: Three volumes, Pages: P. Volume 1. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, preface iii-xiv, advertisement xv-xxvii, blank, memoir on geography xxix-xlviii, contents,…
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