Nuova Geografia universale, antica e moderna. Cosmografia, fisica, topografica, di commercio e d'industria, politica, statistica, etho-grafica, ed istorica secondo W. Guthrie, Morse Rennell, Busching, Gaspari, Fabri, Normann ed altri compilata da una Società di Geografi e di Viaggiatori Francesi, e di altre Nazioni

Features

Author:  William Guthrie

Publisher:  Stamperia ne' Bigli

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1803-1806

Product Condition:
Incomplete work: from volume II to volume X in 12 volumes. Half leather binding with marbled corners and plates with gilt titles and friezes on the spine inserts: stripping on the spines, especially located on the headphones and hinges; small lack on the gusset of volume 4 and cut without defects on the front hinge in volume 5 p. THE; plates discolored with traces of dust and peeling on the margins and corners. Cuts sprayed with traces of dust; small ink stains on the side cut of volume 5 p. I. Ancient ex libris label on the front pastedowns. Papers well preserved with scattered foxing and pale brown spots. There are no tables.

Pages:  (2),IV,295;(4),358,(2);(2),370;(2),146,CXCVI;IV,488;XII,564;(2),303;(4), 434;(2),274;332;190,CLXVI;(2),116

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  22
Width:  14

Description

In twelve volumes the description of the globe as far as it was known in the early nineteenth century. The work lacks Tome I which contained the chronological tables and the general introduction of the work. These are the contents of the individual volumes: Volume II PI: Description of Northern European countries (Introduction on Europe, Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Lapland, Sweden, Russia). Volume II P.II: United Kingdom of England. Volume III PI: Republics of Holland (Batavian Republic and the Netherlands) and of France. Volume III P.II: Constitution and History of France, and the description of the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal. Tome IV: Helvetia, Germany, Bohemia, Silesia, Prussia, Hungary, Poland, Transylvania and Gallicia. Volume V PI: Savoy, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy, Genoa, Tuscany, Roman State and other Principalities and States of Italy. Volume V P.II: Kingdoms of the Two Sicilies, Islands of Italy, Turkey of Europe with its adjacent islands. Volume VI: Description of Asia (Introduction, Asiatic Russia, Tartaria, China, Tibet and Buthan, India, Burmese Empire, Indostan, India this side of the Ganges, Peninsula this side of the Ganges, Persia, Arabia, Empire of Japan). Volume VII: Africa and North America (Barbaria, Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, Kingdoms of Faisan, Bornù and Cashna, Nigrizia, Guinea, Caffreria, African Islands; English America, Nova Scotia). Volume VIII: Continuation of America (United States, Spanish America). Volume IX: West Indies, i.e. the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Spanish and Portuguese South America, the New Discoveries, with a selection of Ancient and Modern Geography and a Universal Table of Coins (West Indies, New Spain, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Guiana; various Pacific archipelagos, New Guinea, New Zealand and New Holland (Australia)). Volume X: Alphabetical general index. Starting from Volume IV, the Italian translation of Barbiellini is dedicated to Francesco Melzi d'Eril Cancelliere and Guarda Sigilli of the Kingdom of Italy.

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