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BLOME, RICHARD. A Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World. 25 engraved maps, some folding, each hand-colored in outline; engraved dedication leaf for the Travel section; dedicatory frontispiece gouache coat-of-arms with manuscript dedication to Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Baron of Daventry and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Signed by Blome. Folio, 370x235 mm, later 1/2 calf, front cover loose, some wear at extremities; endpapers renewed, few scattered minor repairs to several maps along folds; date on title-page altered to read 1672 instead of 1670. London, 1670
Complete with 25 maps and the engraved dedication to the Travel section. This copy of the atlas with the addition of a gouache frontispiece bearing the arms of Baron Finch of Daventry, and with a manuscript dedication presumably in the hand of Richard Blome, and Signed by him at the end of the dedication - "To the Right Hon.ble Heneago Finch / Baron Finch of Daventry & Lord Keeper / of the Great Seale of England &c. / This volume of Geography is humbly / Presented by / My Lord / Ye Hon.rs most humble servant / Richard Blome." A royal decree in the form of a broadside is bound in immediately after the front free endpaper and appears extraneous from the atlas. In the broadside, the King forbids his subjects to reprint or reproduce in any form the contents of the atlas. The decree is dated 14 March 1668/9 and predates a royal decree of assistance found on the verso of the letterpress dedication leaf which is dated 10 July 1669.
