A new, royal, authentic, complete, and universal system of geography: or, A modern history and description of the whole world
Subtitle: Containing ... accounts and descriptions of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ... including the substance and essence of the most remarkable voyages and travels ... particularly the late discoveries in the South Seas, and towards the North Pole ... Comprising every interesting discovery and circumstance in the narratives of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with all the recent discoveries ... carefully written and compiled from the late journals of ... Captains Phillips, King, Ball, Hunter, White, Dixon, Portlock, Mears, Patterson, Bruce, Anbury, Rochon, Morse, Blyth, Ross, Imlay, Keate, Brissot, Hodges, &c. &c. Also compendious histories of every empire, kingdom, state, &c. ... The whole embellished and enriched with upwards of an hundred most elegant and superb copper-plates ...
By: By George Augustus Baldwyn, Esq. assisted by many gentlemen eminent for their knowledge ... of geography; particularly by Charles Andrew Robertson, Esq.--Clement Walley Oulton, Esq.-- and Henry Hogg ...
Contributors: Hogg, Henry, A.M., editor; Oulton, Clement Walley, editor; Robertson, Charles Andrew, editor; Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819, bookseller; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner
Publisher: Sold by Alex. Hogg at (no.16) Pater-noster Row ...
Published: 1794
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 814
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Early works to 1800; Geography
Other titles: Modern history and description of the whole world
Notes: Many of the plates dated 1794.

Irregularities in paging: nos. 3-6, 69-70, 119-120 omitted; nos. 55-56, 115-116, 491-492, 649-652 repeated.

List of subscribers: [4] pages at end.

Includes index.

Rare Book copy: List of subscribers incorrectly bound in middle of index.

Rare Book copy: From the library of George A. Plimpton, with his bookplate.

English short title catalogue, N20238

Gift; George A. Plimpton

Rare Book copy: Bound in full brown suede leather with blind-tooled floral border and red lettering piece on spine.