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Moll’s geography.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 262, as above.
The Compleat Geographer: or, The Chorography and Topography of all the known Parts of the Earth. To which is premis’d an Introduction
to Geography, and a Natural History of the Earth and the Elements. Containing a True and Perfect Account of I. The Situation,
Bounds and Extent, Climate, Soil, Productions, History, Trade, Manufactures: The Religion, Manners and Customs of the People;
with the Revolutions, Conquests and other Changes of all the Countries on the Earth. II. The several Provinces that every
Kingdom or State is divided into. III. The Principal Cities and most Considerable Towns in the World . . . The Whole Containing
the Substance of at least an Hundred and Fifty Books of Modern Travels, faithfully Abstracted and Digested into Local Order;
whereby the Present State of the most Remote Countries is truly shewn, and the Obsolete and Fabulous Accounts of Former Writers
wholly Expung’d. To which are added Maps of every Country, fairly Engraven on Copper, according to the Latest Surveys, and
Newest Discoveries, most Engrav’d by Herman Moll. The
Third Edition. Wherein the Descriptions of Asia, Africa and America are Compos’d anew from the Relations of Travellers of the Best
Repute, especially such as have appear’d within Thirty or Forty Years last past. [Thesaurus Geographicus: or, The Compleat
Geographer. Part the Second. Being the Chorography, Topography, and History of Asia, Africa and America. Faithfully Extracted
from the Best Modern Travellers and most Esteem’d Historians: and Illustrated with Maps, Fairly Engraven on Copper, according
to the Modern Discoveries and Corrections by Herman Moll. The
Third Edition very much Enlarg’d.]
London: Printed for
Awnsham and John Churchill, and
Timothy Childe,
m.dcc.ix.
[1709.]
Folio. 2 parts in 1, with separate signatures and pagination, title printed in red and black, text in double columns, numerous
engraved maps in the letter press (one folded map) by Herman Moll, engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht. Included in the preliminary leaves at the beginning is an
Advertisement concerning this new Edition, a leaf headed
The Authors Abstracted in this Work. Of Europe, and
A Catalogue of the Books of Travels and Authentick Histories, out of which the Descriptions of Asia, Africa, and America,
are almost entirely Extracted;
7 leaves with
An Alphabetical Index of all Countries, Cities, Towns, Rivers, Mountains and Remarkable Places in Europe, and Also in Asia,
Africa, and America
.
The Compleat Geography is preceded by an
Introduction to the Study of Geography.
A General and Particular Description of America, with caption title above a map of the Western Hemisphere, occupies twenty chapters at the end.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Watt II, 675.
Arber III, 617.
Herman Moll, d. 1732, Dutch geographer who lived and worked in England. This third edition is the first known to any bibliography consulted,
and is listed by Arber under History, and not with his Reprinted Books.
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Theatre de l’Univers de Chateaunieres. 3
d. vol.
p. 8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 4, as above.
[GRENAILLE,
François de, Sieur de Chateaunières]
Le Théatre de l’Univers, ou l’Abrégé du Monde . . .
Paris:
A. Robinot,
1646.
