[Rarebooks] FS: 3 vol. Dutch history of the Americas w/22 folding maps. 1766-69

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(AMERICANA) HEDENDAAGSCHE HISTORIE, OF TEGENWOORDIGE STAAT VAN AMERIKA... Met 
Niewe Landkaarten... Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion. 1766-1769. 3 vols. Thick 8vo. 
(4),676,(22);(4),685,(19);(4),620,(16)pp. Each volume with an index. 
Illustrated with 3 added engraved titles and with 25 folding plates (22 maps and plans 
and 3 views), the maps by the successful Dutch mapmaker and publisher Isaak 
Tirion (1705-1769), the views by J. C. Phillips. Cont. vellum, spines neatly 
hand-lettered. All maps and text clean, the first map in Vol. I is poorly folded, 
otherwise a lovely set.     $3,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A history of the present state of the Americas (Central America, South 
America and North America including Canada) since 1725. It is based on Thomas Salmon’
s work THE MODERN HISTORY, OR PRESENT STATE OF ALL NATIONS, London: 
1736-1738. In fact, this Dutch translation by M. Van Gogh was edited and rewritten to 
be, in effect, a new work. The English edition had maps by Herman Moll; the 
Dutch edition has new maps by Tirion, Sabin #31212 comments, “The numerous maps 
and plates are well executed.” Howes #H382.

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