[Rarebooks] FS: Very early (1745) John Newbery imprint. "Flanders Delineated..."

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FLANDERS DELINEATED: OR, A VIEW OFTHE AUSTRIAN AND FRENCH NETHERLANDS. Containing a Brief Description of All theStrange Towns, Forts, Castles... a Concise Account of Bavaria, Bohemia,Moravia, and Austria...  the WholeBeing a Compleat Survey of the Seat of the Present War in Europe.. Illustratedwith Maps... Together with a Military Dictionary. Reading: J. Newbery and C.Miklewright. 1745. 8vo. (8),310,(2)pp. Illus. with 4 folding plates, all ofwhich have been backed: three hand-colored copper engraved maps and anuncolored plate, "instruments used in fortification and gunnery." Oldcalf, spine rebacked with heavy brown buckram, the old calf spine laid down.       $650.00(trade discount allowed)
A very early Newbery imprint. John Newberry began his greatpublishing firm in Reading in 1740. He moved to London by early 1744. Ouranonymous work appeared with both London and Reading imprints (two differentissues), it is one of the last Newbery books to have a Reading imprint. RoscoeA157(2).
 
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