1771 Geographical Grammar Thomas Salmon Atlas MAPS Europe China Colonial USA

1771 Geographical Grammar Thomas Salmon Atlas MAPS Europe China Colonial USA

Thomas Salmon’s ‘New Geographical and Historical Grammar” is an important 18^th-century geography book filled with impressive folding maps. His understanding of the world was extent due in part to him joining George Anson on his tour of the world.

Item number: #3016

Price: $750

SALMON, Thomas

A new geographical and historical grammar : wherein the geographical part is truly modern, and the present state of the several kingdoms of the world is so interspersed as to render the study of geography both entertaining and instructive … : together with an account of the air, soil, produce, traffic, curiosities, arms, religion, language, universities, bishoprics, manners, customs, habits, and coins in use in the several kingdoms and states described

Edinburgh: printed by Willison and Darling: and sold at the shop of W. Darling … and by most other booksellers in Great Britain, 1771.

Details:

• Collation: xii, [2], 7-603, [13]
  • 22 folding engraved maps
    1. ‘The Artificial Sphere’
    2. Europe
    3. Spain and Portugal
    4. France
    5. Italy
    6. The Seven United Provinces within Austrian French and Dutch Netherlands
    7. Germany
    8. Hungary with Turkey in Europe
    9. Poland, Lithuania and Prussia
    10. Russia in Europe
    11. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland
    12. England and Wales
    13. Scotland
    14. Ireland
    15. Asia
    16. Turkey in Asia
    17. West Indies (1)
    18. China
    19. Africa
    20. North America
    21. South America
    22. West Indies (2)
  • Provenance: Handwritten
    • Joseph Wilkinson, 1798
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~8.25in X 5.5in (21cm x 13.5cm)

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