With representations of the various inhabitants in their respective costumes. 16mo in half red leather with gilt stamped ornament and marbled boards. 140pp, plus 12 hand-colored engravings, complete. Rubbing to extremities and shallow loss to the spine ends, bumping at corners exposing boards; Good only with the majority of the textblock discolored from laid-in botanical specimens. Plates affected to varying degrees, but still brightly colored. A charming item, gift and ownership inscriptions to the endpapers (Ann Eliza Sarwell, Wooster OH, has written her name thrice).

Taken from A Geographical Present: Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World by Mary Anne Venning, first published in 1817 and reprinted into the 1820s with 60 plates-- trace of her has disappeared in this American edition. Rare.