[Rarebooks] FS: Payne's "...View of Earth and Nature..." w/both engraved folding maps. London: 1796

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Payne, John. GEOGRAPHICAL EXTRACTS, FORMING A GENERAL VIEW OF EARTH AND NATURE. In Four Parts: Part I. ...Winds - Waters - the Electric Fluid. Part II. ...Mines, Minerals, and Fossils - Vegetables. Part III. Animal Productions... Part IV. Peculiarities in the Human Species. Illustrated with Maps. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson. 1796. 8vo. xiv,530pp. Illustrated with 2 copper engraved, folding maps. The first is a world map, "showing the discoveries of Capt. Cook", the second is a map of "The Temperate and Frigid Zones, Both North & South [Poles] with the Tracts of Modern Navigators. 1796." Cont. tree calf, gilt decorated spine, outer hinges starting but holding very soundly.    $250.00 (trade discount allowed)
Rare with the maps. Sabin 59283. No other copy currently for sale on-line.

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