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The universal gazetteer ; being a concise description ... of the nations, kingdoms, states, towns ... &c. in the known world; the government, manners, and religion of the inhabitants with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions, manufactures and curiosities of the of the different countries ... Illustrated with a complete set of maps / By John Walker.

Accession number
PML 129105
Creator
Walker, John, 1759-1830.
Published
London : Printed and Sold by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-Street; sold also by H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, Vernor and Hood, Birchin-Lane; and C.D. Piguenit, Aldgate, 1795.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Elizabeth M. Riley, 2002.
Notes
With folded frontispiece of The World (Plate I).
"Directions to the binder. The map of the World to front the title; the others may be inserted at the end of the book in alphabetical order, or distributed before their respective descriptions: or, as the whole collection forms an Atlas, they may be bound up by themselves as a companion to the Gazetteer."--Colophon.
Plates not numerically arranged, signed "Engraved for Walker's Geography & c."
"Walker's Gazetteer"--Spine title.
Inscribed at front, Clemence Healey; E Bowman; L. B. Hunnard 1879. Inscribed at back flyleaf upside-down, "Eliza Bowman".
Lacking plates II-VIII (7 of 30), bought from Ennwright (annotated).
Description
xv, [1], [768] p., 23 plates (folded) : ill., front., maps. ; 22 cm
Provenance
Clemence Healey; Eliza Bowman; L. B. Hunnard; from the Charles Ryskamp Collection.
Binding
Tree calf with red spine label.
Classification
Department