Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

254    BARROW, JOHN, Sir. Travels in China. 5 hand-colored aquatint or stipple- engraved plates and 3 uncolored engraved plates, including 2 double-page. x, [2], 632 pages. 4to, 268x210 mm, modern 1 / 2 brown morocco gilt; scattered minor foxing of text, color plates clean, double-page uncolored plates faintly offset, diagonal crease and small stain on title. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 [400/600] first edition . Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney’s 1792-94 embassy to China. Abbey Travel 531; Lust 365. 255 255 c   CARVER, JONATHAN. The New Universal Traveller. Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 37 plates comprising 30 of costume subjects and 7 views; 18 maps, including folding double-hemispheric world map and maps of North and South America. [2], iii, [1], 668 [i. e., 664], [6] pages. Folio, 363x235 mm, modern 1 / 2 mottled calf gilt; marginal soiling and soiling affecting some plates, occasional offsetting from or onto plates, minor edgewear on folding world map, small stains on pages 208-219. first edition in book form . London: C. Robinson, 1779 [800/1,200] 256 c   DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. Orbis descriptio. 4 folding engraved maps (Africa, Europe, Italy and Greece, and the Middle East and Asia). Greek text of Dionysius with Latin verse translation, and commentary by Eustathius in Greek only. [2], xiii, 2-199, [1] pages. 8vo, 188x118 mm, modern marbled boards; occasional browning and minor foxing, scattered pencil marginalia, early owner’s 5-line manuscript poem (“Upon King William III”) on rear endleaf. Hoffmann I, 593. Oxford: at the Theater, 1710 [200/300] Geographical poem on the known world dating from the 1st or 2nd century A.D. Hoffmann I, 593; Sarton I, 258. TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY LOTS 254 - 266