BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 76 110HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca; Or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels… London, 1705. Two volumes. Tall folio, contemporary full paneled speckled brown calf rebacked. $17,500 First edition of this early collection of voyages, two tall folio volumes with two engraved frontispieces, nine large folding or double-page maps, and 21 splendid engraved plates, some folding. Scholar, scientific writer and topographer John Harris was employed by London bookseller Thomas Bennett to produce this great collection of all known voyages. “The first edition is valuable for the original impressions of the fine series of maps by Herman Moll, including a very good one of America, a current chart of the Channel from observations by Edmund Halley, and a map of the West Indies on Mercator’s projection. Among the maps there is a new one of the world according to Mercator’s projection." Harris worked from the original narratives, and “adds some valuable and useful historical accounts of the growth of trade, habits of commerce, and growth of Companies with exclusive rights” (Cox I:10). Frontispieces mounted; text crisp and fresh, with faint dampstaining, primarily to Volume II. Only very few plates with minor closed marginal tears or early paper repairs. Marginal wormholing in Volume I, not affecting text, corner tear to leaf N2 in Volume I touching a few words. A handsome copy, attractively bound. First Edition Of Harris’ Famed Folio Compleat Collection Of Voyages: With Numerous Large Moll Maps And Engraved Plates
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