Atlas Geographus: or, a Compleat System of Geography, ancient and modern. containing what is of most use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. with the discoveries and improvements of the best modern authors to this time. illustrated with about 100 new maps, done from the latest observations, by Herman Moll, geographer; and many other cuts, ... Asia is one volume, with thirty-one maps, Sanson's Tables, &c. ...

Quarto (220 x 165 mm); [viii], *8, 851pp, eighteen (of nineteen) mostly doublepage or folding engraved maps and plates, lacking the modern map of Asia. Inked ownership inscription dated 1953. Contemporary calf, panelled in blind, remnants of black morocco label to spine. Corners bumped, some wear to extremities of spine. London : John Nutt [for John Nicholson],

The Atlas Geographus was an important English geography, issued as a part-work between 1708 and 1717, subsequently assembled into five volumes, dated 1711 to 1717, illustrated with maps, plates and text illustrations. This is the third volume, devoted to Asia; textually it is complete in itself, assembled from 15 parts.

The maps include separate delineations of Arabia, Persia (both classical and modern), China, the East Indies and Japan.

Publication of the completed volume was announced in the Post Boy for 8th-10th April 1712, but the Daily Courant for 14th April has a fuller notice, giving the price in quires (unbound) as 15s. or 16s. with the maps coloured.

The complete set is particularly rare, and even individual volumes are very scarce.

References: Shirley, T.Moll-3a, vol. 3, maps 53-71, map 63 correctly replaced by a modern map of Persia.

Stock Code: 223543