[Rarebooks] FS: Rare Geography/Astronomy for the young student. London: 1735

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(SCIENCE) AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY: Containing
Chiefly, the Description and Use of the Terrestrial and Celestial
Globes. With Many New and Useful Particulars Not Yet Made Publick...
For the Benefit of Learners. The Second Edition. London: Printed for C.
Price... 1735. Sm. 8vo. viii,210,(6)pp. Title page printed in red &
black. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece and 3 copper
engraved plates (1, folding). Cont. tooled paneled calf, worn & rubbed,
outer hinges split but holding soundly. Occasional foxing &
soiling.	$600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Rare; the ESTC records no copies in England and only 2 in North
America. Also, the ESTC records only this "second edition," nothing
prior. This work still (in 1735) refers to California as an "island."

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