A new and authentic system of universal geography, antient and modern including all the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated navigators of various nations, in the different hemispheres : ... and containing a genuine history and description of the whole world, as consisting of empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, continents, islands, oceans &c. ... likewise containing ... Captain Cook's voyages round the world ... the whole forming a complete collection of voyages and travels / By the Rev. Thomas Bankes ... Edward Warren Blake Esq., Alexander Cook, Esq., and Thomas Lloyd. Embellished with near two hundred ... engravings, consisting of views, antiquities, customs, ceremonies, besides whole sheet maps, plans, charts, &c.
- Bankes, Thomas, 1744-
- Date:
- [1790?]
- Books
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Also known as
System of universal geography. English
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for C. Cooke ... and sold by the booksellers of Bath, Bristol ... and by all other booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, [1790?]
Physical description
2 unnumbered leaves, 990 pages, 113 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)) : frontispiece, illustrations, maps (some folded) ; (folio)
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References note
ESTC N42049
Notes
Issued in 90 parts (nos.)
Title page to v. 2 (sig. chi1, inserted following p. 460, not counted in paging) reads: A new, royal, and complete system of universal geography, antient and modern
Title of original ed., published 1787 or later (with royal licence issued 1787) by C. Cooke's predecessor J. Cooke (d. 1810): A new, royal, authentic and complete system of universal geography ...; by Bankes, Blake and Cook. The royal licence in this
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