Descrizione

First edition, first issue, with the Rare Errata leaf at the end. With the engraved title-page and the "Minde of the Front.[ispiece]" leaf, and 8 double-page plates and maps as issued. Folio, very handsomely bound in full antique mottled calf, the spine panel fully gilt, with raised bands separating the compartments which are elaborately decorated with full multi-tooled panels incorporating a number of tools, all gilt, and with a red morocco lettering label gilt, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders, binding edges gilt tooled Collation: [2ff.] [40, A-B4 Preface], [40, a-d2, Contents of the Chapters], 1-651, [1]; [2 blank], 1-776; [2, To the Reader], [24, A Chronological Table], [16, An Alphabeticall Table.of the First and Second Bookes], [16, An Alphaeticall Table .of the Third, Fourth and Fift Bookes], [1, Errata], [1, Colophon] pp. A very handsome copy in full antique mottled calf, the hinges and portions of the tips or edges refurbished imperceptibly in an expert, unobtrusive and sympathetic manner at an early date , the text-block large and barely trimmed, opening leaves with some expert refurbishment and strengthening at the edges, the Preface and a few other leaves remargined or re-edged expertly at an early date and not affecting the text, a clean, crisp and fine copy, with the covers well preserved and the spine panel beautifully accomplished and expertly restored. Rare in such an early binding.