[Rarebooks] fa: 1794 EGYPT Arabia NAPLES Malta ROME &c. - Trusler's HABITABLE WORLD - Map & Plates

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, June 21. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

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. IX [and] X. London: Printed for the Author, at the Library-Press, 1794. First edition. Two volumes in one; thick 8vo in half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; 380, 399 pp.; with an extra engraved title-page (dated 1795), 14 engraved plates and one folding map (of Rome).

Two volumes (bound in one) of Trusler's monumental collection of travels and exploration which was published over the course of ten years and eventually ran to twenty volumes. With sections on EGYPT, ARABIA, ITALY, NAPLES, SICILY, MALTA, and ROME. Modest rubbing and wear to the binding; very occasional scattered spotting to the leaves and plates; lacking some plates & maps; otherwise the contents are quite clean and sound, firmly bound.