Bankes Thomas (56 results)

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. A New and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern [microform]: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, a. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 171 pages. 8.75x8.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Engraving. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. This engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, lightly browned at edges, Uncolored as published. A lovely item and very scarce. Images available.; 10" x 8".

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Engraving. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. This engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, lightly browned at edges, shows a family beneath a hut of branches and leaves with a roaring fire. Uncolored as published. A lovely item and very scarce. Images available.; 10" x 8".…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Engraving. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. This engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, lightly browned at edges, later superb hand-coloring. A lovely item and very scarce. Images available.; 10" x 8".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp. 990, including index. Complete with 92 plates, 2 damaged on inner margin, 20 maps. Robustly recased sympathetically in matching brown calf with the original spine and label. Handsomely bound in one volume. Over 100 pages deal with the new discoveries in 'New Holland' with three folding maps including a fine fold-out map of the recent discoveries, including Botany Bay, New South Wales, also New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and other Pacific islands. Further sections deal with Asia, China, Turkey, America etc.…

Engraving. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. This engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, plate marks defined, lightly browned at edges, Uncolored as published. A lovely item and very scarce. Images available.; 10" x 8".

Engraving. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. This engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, plate marks defined, lightly browned at edges, Uncolored as published. A lovely item and very scarce. Images available.; 10" x 8".

Engraving. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. This engraving is in very good condition, full borders as published, lightly browned at edges, Uncolored as published. A lovely item and very scarce. Part of the dramatic series made to illustrated Captain Cook's Voyages. Images available.; 15" x 10".…

Double Plate Size 15.5 x 9 inches. Black & White Engraving. Unframed In good condition. Some light tanning & a few small marks. This fine original cooper-plate engraved antique print of various Instruments and tools of Tahiti and surrounding Islands visited by Captain James Cook in 1769, during his First Voyage of Discovery was published in Thomas Bankes 1787 edition of A New, Royal and Authentic System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern. printed by Charles Cook, London.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Condition: With only light toning and a few faint spots in the margins, this plate is in very good-excellent condition. | Two scenes of Huaheine and Tahiti from Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage appear in this excerpted plate from Thomas Bankes's "New System of Geography." | The upper view shows a roofed shelter on posts beside a chest raised on legs in a clearing on Huaheine, framed at left by a spreading tree with spiky fronds where two figures sit in its shade. Below, a roofed platform enclosed by a picket fence holds a pale shrouded form in Tahiti, while a man climbs a breadfruit tree at left and the principal mourner stands at right in a towering headdress and long costume holding a long curved staff. | Bankes's System of Geography | The Reverend Thomas Bankes's New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, published in London by J. Cooke around 1790, gathered the discoveries of the age into a single illustrated survey of the world. Its Pacific plates draw on the published accounts of Captain Cook's voyages, and these two scenes appear to follow views of Huaheine and Tahiti first published in John Hawkesworth's 1773 account of Cook's first voyage. | Size: 15.5 x 9 inches.…

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No binding. Condition: Good. 180 x 265 mm., in good condition. This fine copper plate engraving of the city of Dublin is from Thomas Bankes' 'New and Complete System of Geography'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 1 only No date, presumed 1790, iv + 460pp, lacking all plates and maps, title page creased, odd mark in text. Smartly bound in recent brown cloth, leather spine label, new endpapers; Quarto.

Brown hardback leather cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition. Cover worn with loss to leather. Front board loose. Worming (extinct) to prelims. Occasional foxing and marks. 390mm x 260mm (15" x 10"). 990pp, [vi] + plates. 90 b/w plates + 18 b/w maps (8 fold-out). . And Containing a Complete Genuine History and Description of the Whole World, . with an Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of Navigation throughout the Known World. 2 volumes bouns as 1. William Cooper His Booke. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake, Alexander Cook, Thomas Lloyd, Embellished with nearly Two Hundred Engravings, consisting of Views, Antiquities, Customs, Ceremonies, besides Whole Sheet Maps, Plans, Charts, &c. Executed in a much superior stile than any Thing that has ever appeared in this Kingdom. Printed for C. Cooke, London, circa 1790, Volume I: 1-460 pp, Volume II: 460-990 pp, full original leather, 15.5 x 10.25", elephant folios. In good condition. Spines handsomely rebacked with original spine labels reattached. Very nice and sturdy. Light wear to extremities with moderate scuffing to corners. Original leather is peeling along edges. A fine leather was used for this binding. Remnants from a bookplate on pastedowns. Interiors are bright and clean. Light offsetting from plates with minor instance of age stain. Free of known markings. Lacking map of West Indies 517 pp, Map of United States, 492 pp. all else complete. Folding maps are in good working order. Internally fresh and attractively bound. A solid set. Please see photos. Early edition. Collated, not quite complete. This book went through six editions in the 1790's and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colony of New Holland. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific, Cook's Voyages, and Australia (New Holland). Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook's voyages, and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest including the Salish, Tasmania, New Zealand, Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time.…

Hard Cover. Condition: G+. First Edition. Undated, but 1787-1788. 2 vols. Elephant Folio. original full calf gilt, spine labels (rubbed & worn, rebacked with original spines laid-down, hinges slackening, cloth tape strengthening to hinges, both volumes, some chipping to leather, amateurish repairs, internally clean & complete); pp. [iv], 1-460, with frontispiece, 94 plates (full-page, 1/2 page &1/4 page) on 51 sheets, 6 folding maps/charts + 1 full page; [ii (title, last blank)], 461-990 (page 663 erroneously labelled 635), [4 (list of Subscribers), misbound between p.988 & 989], 2 [Directions to the Binder for placing the cuts]), with 70 plates (full-page & 1/2 page) on 39 sheets, 6 folding maps/charts + 10 full page (see Alan Frost in La Trobe Journal No. 8, October 1971 for a history of the book, highlighting differences in content and pagination between editions). Very heavy set (9 kg), additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good copy of an early issue, intact but would benefit from some restoration. Ex-libris Charles Scobie (ANARE, Macquarie Island, 1948), with his ownership signature and date (29-5-1941) to rear pastedown. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2nd. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis, 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings, 17 single engraving plates, 9 single leaf maps, 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good, front board detached. Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout, affecting a few plates, tanning to margins, a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827, affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn, lacking almost half, with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold, tears; The Chart map, maps of Africa, North America, Italy, Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears, restored by an earlier hand. Sold by subscription, with list of subscribers at rear. No edition stated, presumed to be the 2nd edition, printed 1789-1790 (1787-1788 was the 1st ed). This book went through 6 editions in the 1790s and was revised to reflect new discoveries and English interest in the colonization of New Holland. The book is divided along geographical lines. Much of the content deals with the South Pacific, Cook's voyages and Australia (New Holland). ESTC N42026. Sold with all faults. Contents: (5)-106 Book I, New Discoveries, (107)-314, Book II, Asia, (315)-460, Book III, Africa, (461)-576, Book IV, America, (577)-944 Book V, Europe, 944-947, Supplement, 947-948, Origin and Progress of the Art of Navigation, (949)-953, A General Table of Coins, (954)-959 A New Geographical Table, (960) The Superficial Contents of the Globe, (961)-980 A Guide to Geography, (981)-990 Index, + 2 pp. Directions to the Binder, + 2 pp. A List of Subscribers. For collation / edition history see: Alan Frost, Thomas Bankes's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria, No 8. Oct. 1971. Prescott, A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780-1830, p. 242. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated circa 1793. The content based on information received up until 1793. 6+990pp+2 - 88 plates, 22 maps. Whilst the scope purports to be the genuine history and description of the Whole World, such was the importance of Cook's discoveries that the first 106pp incorporating 25 plates and three maps is taken up with Cook's voyages. To this is included a particular description of the improved state of the New Colony formed at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, where the convicts are now settled, and an account of the excursions and discoveries made in the interior parts of New Holland. Altogether this is a gargantuan production with stunning plates and maps. Contemporary full calf, superbly rebacked with the original spine relaid. Photographs available on request.…

Hardcover. 2nd or 3rd edition. Likely to be an original subscriber's copy, listed as "Wilson - Crown Court, Broad St.", likely to be "John Wilson" whose red gilt leather ownership label is mounted into the front board, with special blind tooled lines surrounding it. A second or third edition, published between 1789 & 1791, according to research by Alan Frost published in the LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria, No. 8, 1971. A very bright unsophisticated copy of this work, which has become increasingly scarce. Ferguson 59 describes a 1 volume edition & cites only the Mitchell Library copy. Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook's Voyages, and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest, Tasmania, New Zealand, Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time. It is these contemporary images which make this work scarce as so many have been broken up. The extended title references Columbus and Cook in the same sentence, as "first Discoverer(s)" of different continents; "from the Celebrated Columbus, the first Discoverer of America, to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook, & c. and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of Botany Bay." Folio. Frontispiece, title page, (verso blank), (i) Royal Licence, (ii) Address to the Reader, (1)-990 Texts, etc. +2 pp Directions to the Binder, 2 pp A List of Subscribers, Complete with 90 plates & 22 maps (the map of Great Britain has original hand color; the map of Europe has been hand colored, not unpleasantly but not professionally). Maps and plates are in very good + condition with no refolding or cracking which is usual in this work. Bound in period reversed calf, red gilt title label on spine. Matching early reverse calf strengthening of outer hinge, a couple of splits on leather of spine and very chipped at top and bottom, o/w a very nice copy. "The geography books which appeared in the closing decades of the eighteenth century. are of considerable significance to students of the history of ideas, for the light they shed on English interest in geography and geographical exploration at the end of the eighteenth century. One of the most imposing of these usually quite imposing books is Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake, and Alexander Cook's A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. A massive folio volume this was a popular work, running to six editions in the ten years from 1787 to 1797."(Frost, Thomas Bankes's Complete System, The La Trobe Journal, 1971). Extedned title - All the late important Discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations, in the different Hemispheres, from the Celebrated Columbus, the first Discoverer of America, to the Death of our no less celebrated Countryman Captain Cook, & c. and the Latest Accounts of the English Colony of Botany Bay.. …

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