Maggs Bros.

Folio (446 x 337 mm); letterpress title with vignette engraving, and poem on the verso; XIV, 69, [1], XIIpp., twelve double-page engraved map sheets; Folio; the engraved title vignette and two text vignettes engraved by Frederic Ludwig Schmitner, the text vignettes designed by Salomon Kleiner, another vignette engraved by Johann Martin Bernigeroth. Without the portrait. De-accessioned from the Royal Geographical Society, with their library stamps. Waterstained across the lower part of the page. 19th century half dark brown morocco over purple pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine and corners worn, back joint split at tail, lower third of both boards warped by water damage. Vienna : Johann Thomas Trattner [for Franz Christoph von Scheyb], 1753.