[Rarebooks] FS: Echard's Gazetteer (with California as "a vast island"). London: 1741

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(GEOGRAPHY) Echard, Laurence. THE GAZETTEER’S, OR, NEWSMAN’S
INTERPRETER. Being a Geographical Index of All the Considerable
Provinces, Cities... Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Europe... The
Fifteenth Edition, Corrected, and Very Much Enlarged... London: Printed
for S. Ballard et al. 1741. 12mo. Unpaginated (approx. 264pp.) double
column text. BOUND WITH: THE GAZETEER’S... GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF...
ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA... To Which Is Added, an Account of the
Imperial, Royal, and Princely Families of These Three Parts of the
World... The Eighth Edition... London: Printed for S. Ballard et al.
1741. Unpaginated (approx. 228pp.). Double column text. Both parts
bound together in cont. sheep, later brown morocco spine label, front
hinge partially spit but still holding soundly. $300.00 (trade discount
allowed)
Geographical dictionary with world listings including California “a
vast island,” and many American (North & South) references, etc.

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