Excerpt from A Beautiful Collection of Fine and Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts, Miniatures: Standard Works on Botany, Geography, History, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Zoology, Etc The great rarity of a quite complete copy of this edition which con tains 1) 20 new maps, here printed for the first time, 2) the famous admi ral's map, probably depicted after the designs of Columbus himself 3) the first map of Switzerland, 4) the first map printed in colours is much known. Our copy is in an exceedingly excellent state of preservation, the mar gins are nearly uncut and very large. The measures of the copy are 18x12311 inches. Some slight wormholes going trough some leaves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.