Geographia Antiqua: Being a Complete Set of Maps of Antient Geography. CELLARIUS (Christoph).

Geographia Antiqua: Being a Complete Set of Maps of Antient Geography, Beautifully Engraved from Cellarius. On Thirty-three Copper Plates. Designed for the Use of Schools, and of Gentlemen who make the Antient Writers their Delight or Study.

Double-page letterpress title and contents and 33 double-page engraved maps by R. W. Seale and W. H. Toms.

4to. [259 x 212 x 18 mm]. Bound in original marbled paper covered boards, rebacked in calf, plain endleaves and edges. (Boards rubbed and corners worn, replacement front free endleaf).
London: printed for B. Law and Son, No.13, Ave-Maria-Lane; and F. and C. Rivington, No.62, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1793

Each map is numbered in ink. With an ink signature, dated 1796, inside front cover and at the head of the title and bookplate of Arthur Sowter. Lightly browned, but a good copy.

Originally published in London with an English translation of Lenglet Dufresnoy's French text book. Subsequent editions did without the text and appeared in London in 1747, 1755, 1785 and 1789, and in Dublin in 1764 and 1786. All editions are rare, with ESTC locating six copies of this, at Birmingham Central, British Library, Cambridge, Trinity College Oxford, Yale and University of Sydney.

Stock no. ebc7597