A COMPENDIUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD, FROM THE CREATION TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. COMPILED FOR THE USE OF YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. EMBELLISHED WITH A VARIETY OF COPPERPLATES.

Philadelphia R. Aitken 1774 Two 48mo. volumes. 217; 176 pp. Illustrated with full-page copperplate engravings of Noah's Ark, the city of Babylon, Alexander Taking Tyre, Cleopatra's Galley, and other images. Each volume with its own frontispiece and title-page, ornamental devices at chapter heads. Curiously, on a couple of occasions the printer also chose to insert small illustrations of bees to fill blank space at the end of a chapter. Both volumes bound in their original Dutch paper boards. Front cover of first volume largely, though not entirely, separated at hinge, other covers starting at hinges. One leaf of second volume with small tear to outer edge, resulting in minor text loss. This is a rare copy of an early American lesson book, even more so for being complete and in its original binding. Welch records only six other copies that have both volumes present, most of them lacking some of the plates. Housed in a mint cloth folding box, lettered in brown on the spine. (Rosenbach 76, Welch 226). (Juvenile).

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• bookseller: Bromer Booksellers Inc. (USA)