[Africa, subset:] The Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Writers. By the Authors of the Antient Part. Vols. XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII. [Caption titling:] Modern History: Being a Continuation of the Universal History. Book XVI [part numbers sic, per captions]: A general Description of Africa -with- Book XVI [sic]: The History of Abissinia, or Upper Ethiopia -with- Book XVII: Of the principal Kingdoms and Nations lying along the Western Coast of Africa, and of those which are contiguous to them on the Inland -with- Book XVII: Contains the Origin of the French, Portuguese, Dutch, and English Commerce, on the Coast of Guiney, and more particularly on the Gold Coast -with- Book IV [sic !]: The History of the Carthaginians [& Ethiopians / Arabs / Nice / Trapezond / Spaniards / Gauls]. [5 sequential texts in 5 bindings, complete]
London: Printed for S. Richardson, T. Osborne, C. Hitch, et alia, 1760 - 1758 [sic]. Hardcover. Respectively 492, 543, 483, 445, 664p., illustrated with 8 copper-engraved maps, genealogies, and a view, all these in the terminal volume. Ex library, find a "Library of Congress duplicate" stamp impression on each titlepage..... More
Cat.No: 219980