The History of America. The ninth edition, in which is included the posthumous volume, containing the history of Virginia, to the year 1688; and of New England, to the year 1652.

4 vols 8vo: li-[1 bl.]-383, [4]-432, [4]-435, [4]-418-[1] pp.; 5 folding pls (very occ. foxing, margin of t.-p. of vol. III torn with small loss of paper, p. 35 of the same vol. torn without lack of text, id. for pp. 299-304 of vol. IV).

Cont. tree calf, flat spines with gilt fillets and red leather labels, blue sp. edges (some traces of use).

New edition (1st 1777) of this succesful work by the Scottish historian and anthropologist W. Robertson (1721-1793) relating to the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Complete with 4 maps: "Gulf of Mexico, the islands and countries adjacent", "South America", "Mexico or New Spain" & "Countries of the South Sea" and 1 plate showing Aztec hieroglyphs. With a bibliography of Spanish books and manuscripts in vol. I. Ref. Sabin 71976. - Cp. Leclerc 516 (Fr. ed. of 1778). Joined: Id.- An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope [...]. The third edition. Ibid., id., 1799. 8vo. Tree calf (rust in the inner margin of a few pp. and 1 small perforation). Illustrated with 2 fold. maps of the "South East part of Asia" (1st 1776). (5 vol.)