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BANKES (THOMAS)A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Antient and Modern; All the Late Important Discoveries, Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators of Various Nations, in the Different Hemispheres, engraved frontispiece, 90 engraved plates (mostly comprising scenes), 22 engraved maps (12 folding, small loss to corner of twin-hemisphere World) as called for, letterpress list of subscribers and plates at end, one plate loose, contemporary tree calf, red and green gilt morocco lettering labels on spine, joints split (but secure) [ESTC N42026], folio (385 x 240mm.), C. Cooke, [c.1790]FootnotesAn unusually clean copy of Bankes' handsomely illustrated compendium of mostly eighteenth-century voyages, updated to include an expedition to Botany Bay "with a particular description of Port Jackson, where the convicts are now settled" undertaken in 1787-1788, alongside those of Captain Cook's three voyages to the Pacific, and explorations in China, Japan, the Middle East, East Indies, Africa, etc.