RARE FIRST EDITION with engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 12 engraved plates, woodcut & typographic decoration. 205x165mm. [20]+884 pages [+40 unpaginated index pages]. Brown leather Hardcover. Cover worn, rubbed/scratched and stained. Front cover detached from binding and taped to spine/rear cover with scotch tape. Cover corner peeling. Three small wormholes on rear cover upper edge. Spine wrinkled and taped to front cover. Spine edges peeling. Worm-marks on inner cover. Endpapers wrinkled. Front endpaper upper corner peeling. Front whitepage tattered and almost detached from binding. Worm-marks on frontispiece, title page and several first pages edge - NO damage to plate or text. Two wormholes on introduction pages edge and pages 1-16 edge/upper corner - NO damage to text (one of the holes penetrates also into pages 17-64 - NO damage to text). Pages yellowing, age-stained and wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare 18th-century book has sustained some damage (mostly to cover), but is still in good reading condition for its age.