The universal traveller: . or, a compleat description of the several nations of the world. Shewing, I. The Situation, Boundaries, and Face of the respective Countries. II. Number of Provinces and Chief Towns in each. III. The Genius, Temper, and Habits of the several People. IV. Their Religion, Government, and Forces by Sea and Land. V. Their Trafick, Produce of their Soil, Animals, and Minerals. VI. An Abstract of the History of each Nation. Brought down to the present Time. And illustrated with a great variety of maps and cuts. By Mr. Salmon.
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767)
Category
Books
Date
1752 - 1753
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141909.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2., plates . ill.., maps . fol.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signature (Strongitharm) illegible: 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7704; Lee's London Bookplates (1985) 193) [Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double gilt fillet border; six raised bands; spine gilt ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Universal traveller".
Makers and roles
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767)