A NEW AND COMPLETE SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY

Or an authentic history and interesting description of the whole world and its Inhabitants [...]

by Christopher Kelly

Printed for Thomas Kelly, London, 1817 - 1818.

Complete in 2 volumes, bound in contemporary leather.

Contains 10 maps & 30 plates (plus frontispieces & illustrated titlepages).

The firm of Thomas Kelly, famous for Kelly's Directory, was founded in 1799. It specialised in publishing compendia of useful information, copiously illustrated, for a growing middle class readership.

Book condition: fair to good. Externally worn, with front board virtually detached to one volume. Foxing & stains throughout, from mild to extensive (representative sample of plates photographed). 2 of the maps are torn; one plate is torn with loss.
Condition and loss of some plates/maps is reflected in the price; frontispiece nearly detached in volume 1. Has approx 150 pages on Australia & an index from a different work (simialr period) bound in to rear of Volume 2. 

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