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(Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography, 31st January 2019) GORDON, PATRICK GEOGRAPHY ANATOMIZ'D, OR THE GEOGRAPHICAL GRAMMAR: being a short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography. London: for J. Nicholson [et al.], 1711. 6th edition, 8vo., title page in red and black, with 16 engraved folding maps, with that of the world with the surrounding decorations hand coloured and the other maps hand coloured in outline, 18th century mottled calf, repairs to head and tail of spine, short tear to foot of p. 265 (through a couple of lines of text, but no loss) few wormholes, mostly confined to single wormholes at the inner or lower margins, signature of Francis Midon on the half title (author of The History of the Rise and Fall of Masaniello, the Fisherman of Naples, 1729?), book plates of John and Michael Bury; Echard, Laurent Dictionnaire geographique portatif, ou description des royaumes, provinces, villes, patriarchats, eveches, duches, comtes, marquisats, villes imperials et anseatiques, ports, forteresses, citadelles, et autres lieux considerables des quatre parties du monde … traduit de l'anglois sur la treizieme edition … par Monsieur Vosgien … Nouvelle edition, revue, augmentee & corrigee. Paris: chez Didot, 1758. 8vo., with a folding engraved world map, contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, with the book plates of John and Michael Bury (2)