Folio. No copy of the edition of 1706 was available. The first edition, Oxford 1700, was examined and contains 2 printed leaves at the beginning for the title and Catalogue (printed on the verso of the first, and the recto of the second leaf) and 41 double-page engraved maps by various engravers, all dedicated to William Duke of Gloucester. The first two maps, both by M. Burghers, are of the Terraqueous Globe. In the first, the North American Continent has the engraved explanation: This Continent with the adjoining Islands is generally supposed to have been Anciently unknown, though there are not wanting some, who will have even the Continent its self to be no other, than the Insula Atlantis of the Ancients.

The “NB” on the South American Continent reads: In this New Sett of Maps for the better Distinction sake, those Parts of the Earth which were Anciently known, have their Coasts engraven (as usually) with the shade falling outwards whereas the Parts Anciently unknown have their Coasts shaded inwards as is for instance the adjoining Coasts.

The last three maps are of the Americas. The first, of North America, shows the East Coast, Florida and the island of California, Mexico, the Northern part of South America and the Islands; the second is of South America, and the third of the most considerable Plantations of the English in America, with inset maps of New Scotland, and I. of Jamaica, Carolina, Bermudaz or Sommers Isles and the I. of Barbados.

Oblong 4to. Engraved title within an ornamental border, with portraits of Strabo, Ptolomaeus, A. Ortelius, P. Cluverius, P. Bertius, and C. Cellarius, engraved address Lectori Benevolo within an ornamental border, printed Index on 1 leaf in 4 columns, 67 engraved maps, colored, including 1 folded.