Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. London: T. Osborne et al, 1764. 2 volumes. Folio (415 x 255 mm). [6], xvi, [4], 984; [14], 1056, [22] pp. Title pages in red and black. 61 plates and maps (15 maps double-page). Contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked to style, old morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Light foxing, occasional light browning, a few minor creases to folding maps, West Indies and Russian Empire maps slightly toned. Third edition, "carefully revised, with large additions and continued down to the present time" by John Campbell, with Bowen's maps of Georgia and Australia amongst others. The latter, A Complete Map of the Southern Continent from the surveys of Abel Tasman, is one of the first separate English maps of Australia and shows the coastline still incomplete. Cf. Hill p 137; Goldsmiths 8040; Sabin 30483.
Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. London: T. Osborne et al, 1764. 2 volumes. Folio (415 x 255 mm). [6], xvi, [4], 984; [14], 1056, [22] pp. Title pages in red and black. 61 plates and maps (15 maps double-page). Contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked to style, old morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Light foxing, occasional light browning, a few minor creases to folding maps, West Indies and Russian Empire maps slightly toned. Third edition, "carefully revised, with large additions and continued down to the present time" by John Campbell, with Bowen's maps of Georgia and Australia amongst others. The latter, A Complete Map of the Southern Continent from the surveys of Abel Tasman, is one of the first separate English maps of Australia and shows the coastline still incomplete. Cf. Hill p 137; Goldsmiths 8040; Sabin 30483.
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