A Geographical Present; Being a Description of the Several Countries of Europe.

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.