HARRIS JOHN Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca; or A

Sale 1960 - Lot 22

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HARRIS, JOHN. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca; or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels. 23 engraved plates; 9 folding or double-page maps. Contemporary handwritten leaf of directions to binder at end of Volume 2. 2 volumes. Folio, 374x232 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, lettering pieces off, joints cracked, cords intact, vertical crack in Volume 2 spine; repaired clean tears in several text leaves, Volume 1 frontispiece and plates facing pages 390, 392, and 628 trimmed and mounted, few gatherings browned, clean tear in map of Russia, map of North Pole trimmed with slight loss at top and bottom, map of the Americas slightly cropped at bottom almost touching Cape Horn, vertical crease in Volume 2 frontispiece, repaired clean tear in plate facing page 501. London: Thomas Bennet et al., 1705

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