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.VI. Containing, the present state of the Russian, or Muscovite Empire; ... Illustrated with cuts and maps accurately drawn, according to the geographical part of this work, by Herbert Moll.
Thomas Salmon (1679-1767)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3205261
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],461,[19]p., plates : ill., maps (fold.) ; 12mo. 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)