377 - PSALMANAZAR (Georges). SALMON (Thomas).

PSALMANAZAR (Georges). SALMON (Thomas). Universal History, from the Beginning of the World to the Present, Translated from the English by a Society of Men of Letters. Amsterdam, Arkstée & Merkus. 1760–1788. Amsterdam, Arkstée & Merkus. 1760–1788. Forty-four volumes in-4, contemporary sheepskin, decorated spines. 158 fold-out maps, plates, etc. One folded plate contains two maps. Some wear to the spines and leather covers; some binding joints are fragile or split by a few centimeters. Marginal worm damage, particularly on the last folios of volume 18; yellowed paper in a few volumes; minor imperfections; and some small imperfections without missing material on certain maps. An old handwritten Rousseau bookplate on one volume. Rare. Two additional volumes were published several years later (1792 and 1802). Numerous chapters and maps concerning Asia, including China, Japan, Persia, Africa, and the Americas, etc.