BÜSCHING, ANTON FRIEDRICH.

Neue Erdbeschreibung. Ersten Theil, welcher Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden und das russische Reich, Preussen, Polen, Ungarn, und die europäischen Türken enthält (+) Neue Erdbeschreibung Zweynter Theil, welcher, Portugal, Spanien, Frankreich, Italien und Grossbritannien.

Hamburg, Bohn, 1770 (vol. 1) & 1769 (vol. 2).

8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spines. Wear to extremities, some of gilting worn off. Spine-ends with a bit of loss of leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down font end-paper (F. v. Iuel). Internally nice and clean. XX, 1672, (168) pp.; (16), 1460, (176) pp.

Sixth edition of Büsching’s magnum opus. Its "merit lies in providing a description of the earth on a scientific foundation. Even if he only captured it political-statistically without discussing it physically, that is to say, from the historical and not from the natural scientific point of view, his work remains a great achievement" (cf. NDB)

Order-nr.: 61008