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London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare first editions of all eight volumes. Originally published as a four-volume set, expanded with volumes V-VI in 1732, and followed up by the Osborne volumes in 1745. Contemporary styled speckled calf spines, raised bands, gilt titles, original calf blind panelled boards. Outer edges dentelle. Osborne volumes have speckled calf boards, elaborate gilt compartments, numbered I and II rather than VII and VIII. Speckled edges. c, [4], 813, [12 pp. index]; [4], 838, [12]; [12], 901, [17]; [8], 848, [12]; [4], 716, [6]; [6], iv, 736, [19]; [4], xii, lviii, 873 pp.; 931 pp, [30 pp. index]. Leather is lightly cracked and rubbed. Some light rubbing and wear to edges. Slightly more wear to boards to vol. V and Osborne volumes. Binder's ticket to rear pastedown of Vol. I of first VI vols. Volumes I-VI have newer endpapers and flyleaves. Osborne volumes also previously restored. All volumes have minimal foxing given… Read More

London: John Walthoe [et al]; Thomas Osborne, 1745. Expert neat strengthening to some joints; in very good condition, a most handsome set.. Eight volumes, folio, comprising the complete works in original and matching bindings, containing some 213 engraved plates including work by Herman Moll, Johannes Kip, and others (many double-page or folding), engraved and woodcut illustrations throughout; splendid late eighteenth-century Russia leather bindings, simple gilt and blind borders to sides, spines ornamented and lettered in gilt between double raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. A splendid set of the two great voyage anthologies of the early eighteenth century, in handsome, original matched bindings. This set contains the Churchill anthology in its second improved edition and the first edition of the supplementary Osborne series, better known as the "Harleian" or "Oxford Voyages", which is generally seen as a supplement to the Churchill collection; the eight volumes of this set are uniformly… Read More