SAVARY DES BRUSLONS, Jacques. The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, translated ... with Large Improvements ... by Malachy Postlethwayt , London: John and Paul Knapton, 1755. 2 volumes, 2° (422 x 455mm). Titles printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece in volume I, 24 double-page or folding maps, 26 folding printed tables. (Frontispiece offset onto title, light browning and spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines (spines rather worn, 3 labels missing). Second English edition of volume I and first of volume II, with some entertaining comments on French cartographers. cf.Kress 5157. (2)
SAVARY DES BRUSLONS, Jacques. The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, translated ... with Large Improvements ... by Malachy Postlethwayt , London: John and Paul Knapton, 1755. 2 volumes, 2° (422 x 455mm). Titles printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece in volume I, 24 double-page or folding maps, 26 folding printed tables. (Frontispiece offset onto title, light browning and spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines (spines rather worn, 3 labels missing). Second English edition of volume I and first of volume II, with some entertaining comments on French cartographers. cf.Kress 5157. (2)
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