1792 Guthrie ATLAS & Geography 21 MAPS Illustrated Navigation America Asia India

1792 Guthrie ATLAS & Geography 21 MAPS Illustrated Navigation America Asia India

William Guthrie was well known during the mid-18^th-century for his many contributions to world history, especially through his extensive and thorough books. As a Scottish historian, he published one of the world’s best and most popular geography texts of the 18^th-century.

This truly impressive 1792 single-volume edition is illustrated with 21 maps! Other interesting inclusions of note:

• Chronological table/list of world events
• An illustration of an armillary sphere
• Coin equivalency tables
• An early, important description of the discovery of America – though, according to Evans, much of Guthrie’s section on America is attributed to Jedidiah Morse (Evans 27077, 28782). Sabin even notes that this work includes “much matter relating to America”).

Item number: #21076

Price: $750

GUTHRIE, William

A new system of modern geography : or, a geographical historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world. … By William Guthrie, Esq. The astronomical part by James Ferguson, F.R.S. To which have been added, the late discoveries of Dr. Herschell

London: Printed for Charles Dilly and G.G. and J. Robinson, 1792.

Details:

• Collation:
  • iv, [8], 926
    • Wanting last page(s) of index table
  • 23 plates, of which 21 are folding maps by Kitchin
    • Frontispiece map, first 12 leaves present but damaged
  • References: Lowndes 960; Sabin 29327; ESTC T 1381855
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~8.75in X 5.75in (22cm x 14cm)
  • Some condition issues as seen, but the maps alone (often selling for upwards of $100 each) present here a great value

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