Title: Modern History: or, the Present State of All Nations. Describing their Respective Situations, Persons, Habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, Animals and Minerals Author: Salmon, [Thomas] Place: London Publisher: James Crokatt Date: 1725 Description: Vol. I only. [24], 464, [8] pp. Illustrated with 14 copper-engraved plates, many folding, including 3 folding maps by Herman Moll; engraved initials, head & tail pieces. 7½x4¾, period calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands (lacks the spine label). Third Edition. Important compilation with the desirable copper-engraved maps by Herman Moll and the copperplate views and plates. Folding maps of China and Japan, India beyond Ganges, and the Philippines. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, old splits to spine, old chips to leather; tape repairs to inner margin of first map, tape repairs to one other plate, old inscription to prefatory page, lacks free endpapers, some dampstaing to last 50 pages at fore-edge; still good, contents clean. Item number: 174886
Title: Modern History: or, the Present State of All Nations. Describing their Respective Situations, Persons, Habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, Animals and Minerals Author: Salmon, [Thomas] Place: London Publisher: James Crokatt Date: 1725 Description: Vol. I only. [24], 464, [8] pp. Illustrated with 14 copper-engraved plates, many folding, including 3 folding maps by Herman Moll; engraved initials, head & tail pieces. 7½x4¾, period calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands (lacks the spine label). Third Edition. Important compilation with the desirable copper-engraved maps by Herman Moll and the copperplate views and plates. Folding maps of China and Japan, India beyond Ganges, and the Philippines. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, old splits to spine, old chips to leather; tape repairs to inner margin of first map, tape repairs to one other plate, old inscription to prefatory page, lacks free endpapers, some dampstaing to last 50 pages at fore-edge; still good, contents clean. Item number: 174886
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