BANDS - Baumgarten, Siegmund Jacob. Uebersetzung... Lot 131

BANDS - Baumgarten, Siegmund Jacob. Uebersetzung der Allgemeinen Welthistorie die in Engeland durch eine Geselschaft von Gelehrten ausgefertigt worden. Fourteenth part. With gest. Frontispiece, title vignette, 3 (of which 2 double-page) copper plates, 2 (of which 1 multiple) folded copper engraved maps. Engraved maps. Halle, J. J. Gebauer, 1754. 4°. [5] ll., 748 pp. Red morocco binding of the time with 2 gold-stamped spine labels, rich ornamental gilt on the spine, covers, headpieces and inner edges, gilt edges, endpapers decorated with brocade paper (spine browned, corners lightly rubbed and bumped, covers slightly scuffed). The maps of Constantinople, the copper with ground plan of the Church of St. Sophia (today's Hagia Sophia), exterior view with the mosque Solimannie (today's blue mosque) and column representations. - Lightly browned, in places lightly foxed