Cosmography in Four Books containing Chorography and History of the Whole World
Book Description
Four Books being:
First book - Chorography and History of Italy, the alpine provinces, France, Spain and Britain, with the Isles thereof.
Second book - Chorography and History of Belguim, Germany, Denmark, Swethland, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Sclavonia, Dacia and Greece with the Isles thereof.
Third book - Chorography and History of the Lesser and Greater Asia
Fourth Book - Part 1 - Chorography and History of Africa
Fourth Book - Part 2 - Chorography and History of America (printed 1702)
Folio Size - 15.75" x 10.25"
PLEASE NOTE: This book should contain 5 pull out maps 1 for each book, only the First and Third books (Europe & Asia) remain hence it is missing 3 maps.
Modern Rebind (1980)
Bookplate to front pastedown of Caroli Farolea
Dealer Notes
Condition Report:
Leather rebind still looks fresh with some creasing to leather to joints, moderate foxing to prelims, asia map has some tears (see photo), single worm hole starts on page 377 with more evidence of worming towards the end, doesn't affect text, occasional page creased, occasional staining to pages, tightly bound, all in all a book with some issues but priced accordingly.
Leather rebind still looks fresh with some creasing to leather to joints, moderate foxing to prelims, asia map has some tears (see photo), single worm hole starts on page 377 with more evidence of worming towards the end, doesn't affect text, occasional page creased, occasional staining to pages, tightly bound, all in all a book with some issues but priced accordingly.
Author
Peter Heylin
Date
1701
Binding
Folio Half Calf
Publisher
Printed by Jonas Brown
Condition
VG
Pages
1132 plus tables
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