"A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World", Guthrie, William

This thick octavo geography contains 27 folding maps including: 2 world maps; Europe; Sweden, Norway & Denmark; 2 maps of Russia; Scotland; England and Wales; Ireland; 2 maps of France; 2 maps of the Netherlands; Germany; Poland; Switzerland; Spain and Portugal; Italy; Turkey in Europe & Hungary; Asia; India; Africa; North America; British Colonies in North America; The United States of America; West Indies; and South America.

Of particular interest is the Russell map of the United States which contains the mistaken title "Treaty of 1784." The map is noteworthy for the depiction of the Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants. Ohio is a small area labeled Ohio Company and Donation Lands with no sign of the other bounty grants named on Russell's larger, derivative map. Other interesting designations west of Ohio bear the labels Illinois Company, Wabash Company, Army Lands, and New Jersey Company. Also of interest is the map of North America which shows a speculative River or the West, and the two world maps which show Van Diemen's Land still attached to mainland Australia and an incomplete coastline of New Guinea. The volume also includes a single page plate depicting an armillary sphere.

Original brown leather with title label on spine. 1056 pages.

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Condition: B

The maps are good to very good with light to mostly moderate offsetting. Text is very good with minor toning and an occasional spot of foxing. There are previous owners' signatures on the title page and numerous manuscript notations in the endpapers and pastedown. Covers are worn with bumped edges, spine is heavily cracked, and the front board is detached.