Modern history: or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, animals and minerals. By Mr. Salmon. Vol.II. Which contains the State of the Islands of Amboyna-Banda, and the Molucca's, where the Spices grow; and shews how barbarously the English were expell'd from those Islands by the Dutch. It contains also the State of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra, and enters upon the Continent of India, or the Empire of the Great Mogul. Illustrated with cuts, and maps, accurately Drawn, according to the Geographical Part of this Work, by Herman Moll.
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3205257
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],469,[13]p., plates : ill., maps (fold.) ; 12mo. Advertisement leaf in this copy bound in before titlepage. Provenance: eighteenth-century sepia armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]; pasted over eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate of Richard Banner [Banner (b. 1696) of Little Aston Hall, sold library to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Binding: eighteenth-century panelled calf; five raised bands; remnants of gold tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767) Herman Moll (1654-1732)