[ALCEDO, Don Antonio] & George Alexander THOMPSON (translator). The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies ... Containing an entire translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, London: John Carpenter (and others), 1812-15, 5 volumes, 4° (285 x 222mm.), half titles, list of subscribers and advertisement leaf at front of volume one (occasional light spotting), contemporary half calf (worn, one board lacking). [Sabin 683; Lowndes p.26: "Thompson's edition for its additions, &c. is infinitely more valuable than the original."] (5)

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[ALCEDO, Don Antonio] & George Alexander THOMPSON (translator). The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies ... Containing an entire translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, London: John Carpenter (and others), 1812-15, 5 volumes, 4° (285 x 222mm.), half titles, list of subscribers and advertisement leaf at front of volume one (occasional light spotting), contemporary half calf (worn, one board lacking). [Sabin 683; Lowndes p.26: "Thompson's edition for its additions, &c. is infinitely more valuable than the original."] (5)
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"Mr Nesbitt Thompson at Lord Rivers's, 8 Chesterfield Street" (contemporary inscription on card mounted on verso of advertisement leaf)

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