Title Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Above Four Hundred of the Most Authentic Writers... Relating to Any Part of Asia, Afica, America, Europe... Also an Appendix, of the Remarkable Accidents at Sea... The Charters, Acts of Parliament, etc... All Original Papers Are Printed at Large... to Which Is Prefixed, a History of the Peopling of the Several Parts of the World, and Particularly of America...
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition
Publisher London Printed for Thomas Bennet 1705
Seller ID 371
In two volumes. [14], lxvii, 826, [16]pp; [4], 928, 56, [12]pp. There are several pagination errors. Contemporary full paneled calf stamped in blind on the sides, spines elaborately decorated in gold and with brown and red labels lettered and decorated in gold, edges also decorated in gold. With engraved frontispieces, twenty-one inserted plates, nine maps (four large foldout and five double-spread), in-text illustrations. With the bookplates of noted businessman, banker and collector Richard Lather of New Rochelle, New York. Some wear to boards and spines. Internally extremely clean, with no wormholes. One of the plates has a narrow horizontal toning line. Overall, a nice, very good set. Sabin 30482. ; Folio
