In 8° (mm 190x120); engraved allegorical frontispiece, endpapers 8 unnumbered including allegorical frontispiece, pp. 624 with 25 fold-out f.t. plates including views (Mecca, Hispahan, two maps and plates of customs, animals and plants (coffee tree). Handsome brown marbled coeval hardback binding with title and gold friezes on orange gusset to spine, blue splash cuts. Thomas Salmon (1679-1767), English historian, geographer, and polygraph, traveled in Europe and the East and West Indies accompanying George Anson on his journey around the world. According to William Cole, an English antiquarian, Salmon wrote most of his work in Cambridge, where he ran a coffee house, later moving to London. The work has been the subject of numerous translations, remakes and imitations in various languages and was printed in Venice in Italian by Albrizzi over a period of several years, enriched with numerous original copperplate engravings, not found in the English version; it traces a careful historical analysis of the nations of the world, enriched by geographical and artistic descriptions of the cities. Cf. Morazzoni, p. 253. Cremonini, 64.