Edward Warren Blake (105 results)

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.

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. 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. 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:.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.

Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators . History and Description of the Whole World. Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787.