Hardcover
1741 · London
by Fransham, John
London: John Torbuck, 1741 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Volume II only. Second edition, "enlarg'd with the Addition of a New Sett of Cutts." 16mo. Pp. 275, [20], 24, index. Engraved folding frontispiece, 4 plates. Handsomely bound in modern calf in the antique style. A fine copy. Folding frontis with repairs, else a fine and clean copy. One of the plates includes New England whaling ships near Greenland. Volume II only, the most important of this set. Includes 84 pages on Mexico, Terra Firma, Peru, Chili, Paraguay, Amazons, Porto Rico, and Brazil; 51 pages on Virginia, Maryland, New England, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, North and South Carolina and Georgia; 26 pages on Jamaica, Barbadoes, Bahamas, and the West Indies. The last 102 pages cover England, Scotland and Ireland..
(Inventory #: 8200)