MAVOR, William Fordyce (1758-1837). Historical Accounts of the most Celebrated Voyages, Travels and Discoveries, from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period. London: Printed for E. Newbery, 1796-1801 [?but 1810]. 25 volumes, 12mo (142 x 90mm). 75 engraved plates, of which 2 folding, and including a portrait of the author and a folding map of the world; with a folding letterpress "Comparative Table of the Probabilities of Life in New England and in Europe" (one leaf torn in vol. VI without loss, one leaf torn in vol. IX with minor loss of letters, some mainly light spotting and staining. a few darker spots). Contemporary plum-backed marbled paper boards with vellum corners, spines lettered and ruled in gilt with small galleon motifs stamped in gilt (rubbed, corners bumped, some joints splitting). With the same author's The British Tourists; or Traveller's Pocket Companion, through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (London, 1798 [?but 1810], volumes I - IV only (of 6), 12mo, 4 folding hand-coloured engraved maps inserted in each vol. as frontispieces), uniformly-bound with the preceding set and with the vol. numbers on the spines continuing the sequence to vol. 29. See Brunet III, 327: "Cette collection a été réimpr. à Londres, 1810, en 31 vols. ...". (29)
