A new system of modern geography: : or, a geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world. … / By William Guthrie, Esq; The astronomical part by James Ferguson, F.R.S. A new edition, with great additions and improvements. Illustrated with a set of large maps, engraved by Mr. Kitchin, &c.
William Guthrie (1708-1770)
Category
Books
Date
1780
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3013133
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [3], 795, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates (20 folded) : maps ; 4to. Maps of Scotland (pp. 118-19), England and Wales (pp. 164-5), Ireland (pp. 348-9), France (pp. 370-1), Germany (pp. 412-13), British America (pp. 656-7) are torn. Ephemera: flowers [heather? & red campion (or similar 5-petalled flower)] pressed in between pp. 332-3. Provenance: no marks of provenance. Binding: eighteenth-century, sprinkled, polished sheep over boards on five raised cords, gilt floral and foliage tooling on spine, red spine label, gilt roll on board edges, remains of yellow painted edges. Old water stains on text throughout.
Makers and roles
William Guthrie (1708-1770), author