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Peacock (W) Pub. A Geographical Dictionary

Peacock (William) Publisher. A Compendious Geographical Dictionary,

Containing a Concise Description of the Most Remarkable Places, Ancient and Modern, in Europe, Asia, Africa & America, Third Edition, title, 1 plate of the Newtonian System of the Planets, and 8 folding maps including double-hemisphere world, Australasia and Polynesia, engraved maps with original hand-colouring in outline, each c.130 x 170mm., occasional light spotting or browning, modern bookplate on front free endpaper, contemporary full mottled calf, rubbed, 12mo., 1804.

***In this edition New Holland is still only noted under New Discoveries and the southern coastline of Australia is incomplete on the map. .