3 volumes, 8vo (214 x 130 mm). Lithographed portrait frontispiece, engraved titles. (Some minor spotting and light offsetting.) 19th-century dark purple straight-grained morocco gilt, spine in 9 compartments with 8 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, gilt-decorated in 3, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS IN EACH VOLUME of cityscapes depicting Eugene Robertson’s Balloon Ascent in Castle Garden, New York (1792), the South Prospect of the City of New York (1759), and the East Prospect of Philadelphia after the Scull & Heap View (1754) (slight wear to extremities. Provenance: Henry Charles Blaksley (armorial bookplate); presumably sold Parke Bernet, The Library of the Late Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas Sale (815), Lot 115, 1946; sold Harry F. Marks, Bookseller (ticket to rear pastedown). Tenth edition.