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Title: A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World Author: Guthrie, William Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Johnson & Warner Date: 1809 Description: 2 volumes in 1. [8], 556; [4], 496 pp. With 24 folding copper-engraved maps; 1 copper-engraved plate of an armillary sphere. 8½x5, period calf. First American Edition. Rare first American edition of Guthrie's popular and influential geography, complete with all the maps. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers scuffed and worn; contents well foxed and darkening with some staining and soiling, double-hemisphere frontispiece map badly creased, with a few tears a some loss, lacking the free endpapers, overall good, sold as is. Item number: 172697