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Full-Leather. Condición: Good. Second Edition. Probably the second edition. Originally published in this form by Tonson and Watts in 1716. Text in Latin. Contemporary full leather binding. The spine has five raised bands but has no title panel and there is some chipping at the top and bottom and some light cracking along the edge next to the front panel. The corners are bumped with some rubbing and there is some surface wear to the front and rear panels. Browning around the edges of the endpapers with two inches of the front pastedown torn away and the front free endpaper torn down most of its length. Previous owner's name to the back of the map at the front of the book - all three maps are present and intact. There is light browning to the pages which are otherwise generally unmarked.…

12mo, pp. [44], 233, [327] index; engraved frontispiece, vignette woodcut on title page, title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and ornaments; full polished tan calf circa second quarter of the 19th century, smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 5 compartments, black calf labels in 2; joints lightly rubbed; a very good, sound, and clean copy. With the final leaf containing the errata and Tonson ads, an engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Curtis Cherry, and the later memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. Henry Curtis Cherry "was born in Bombay in 1798, the 4th son of Catherine (1768-1861) and John Hector Cherry (1763-1803). Both sides of his family had risen to prominence in the East India Company and his brothers and other relatives continued in that service. Henry however returned to England to study at Cambridge and enter the church, being ordained a priest in Norwich in 1823" (University of Reading). He died in 1864. He spent much of his life in genealogical pursuits, his 'Antiquarum et insignium familiarum in comitatu Bercheriensi prosapiae'; or, 'Genealogies of Berkshire families' left in three manuscript volumes at his death, together with a manuscript name index for each volume. Mills College Check List 440; Riedel-Horatiana A-142.…