[Rarebooks] fa: 1787 TARTARY & SIBERIA, NORTH POLE, GREENLAND, ICELAND &c. (Trusler's HABITABLE WORLD DESCRIBED)

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John Trusler (ed.): The Habitable World Described, or The Present State of the People in all Parts of the Globe, from North to South; Shewing the Situation, Extent, Climate, Productions, Animals, &c. of the different Kingdoms and States; including all the new Discoveries: Together with the Genius, Manners, Customs, Trade, Religion, Forms of Government, &c. of the Inhabitants… With a great Variety of Maps and Copper-Plates, engraved in a capital Stile, the Subjects of which are mostly new, and such as have never yet been given in any English work… Vol. I [and] II. London: Printed for the Author, at the Library-Press, 1787-88. First edition. Two volumes in one; thick 8vo in half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; 344, 324 pp.; with in-text illustrations and diagrams, plus 17 copper-engraved plates and 3 folding maps.

The first two volumes (bound in one) of Trusler's monumental collection of travels and exploration, published over the course of ten years and eventually running to twenty volumes. Complete in itself. With folding maps of: the Country Thirty Degrees round the NORTH-POLE; the RUSSIAN DOMINIONS from the last Survey of Dr. Pallas; and SWEDEN, NORWAY AND DENMARK.

With major sections on:
	- GREENLAND, including the Labrador Coast. Plates: Ice-blinke; Umiak; Greenlanders; Singing Combat; Esquimaux.
	- ICELAND. Plates: Geyser; Icelanders.
	- LAPLAND. Plates: Laplanders Hunting; Laplanders Travelling.
	- NORWAY. Plates: Filefield; Norwegians.
	- SIBERIA AND TARTARY (by Pallas). Plates: Different Tribes of Tartars at the Mausoleum at Kasimof [Kasimov]; Kirgutsians at the Ruins of Bulgari; Cossacks Fishing; Kalmucks [Kalmyk] Removing; Kalmucks Seeking a Fresh Abode; A Kalmuck Smoking Party. With in-text woodcuts of the Dalai-Lama, Erlik-Khan, a monk, etc.
Wear to the edges and spine head, some rubbing and creasing to the spine and joints; text block over-opened a bit at the midway point; plates mildly toned with some spotting to the margins; offsetting to the folding maps; a few scattered spots to the last few text leaves, otherwise exceedingly clean and bright, and securely bound.