The Library Atlas; consisting of One Hundred and Ten Maps of Modern, Historical, and Classical Geography, &c.; with descriptive letterpress of Modern Geography, by James Bryce, LL.D.; Historical Geography, by William F. Collier, LL.D.; Classical Geography, by Leonhard Schmitz, LL.D. with copious indices 1876

Bryce, James; Collier, William F.; Schmitz, Leonhard

$1,500.00

Publisher: William Collins
Place Published: Glasgow, London, and Edinburgh
Date Published: 1876
Illustrator: profusely illustrated
Size: 4to

Superior single-volume late 19th-Century collection of maps (all maps full-colour, hinged and double-page), consisting of 98 maps of countries the world over, 2 double-page maps of the Constellations (Northern and Southern hemispheres), and 16 colour figures of Planetary Systems (Ptolemy and Tycho-Brahe), Celestial Planisphere, Terrestrial Globe, Armillary Sphere, Theory of Tides, Phases of Moon, etc); texts by James Bryce (Modern Geography), William F. Collier (Historical Geography), and Leonhard Schmitz (Classical Geography), and with copious indices containing upwards of 50,000 names; no date to title page, Preface dated 1876; bound in 3/4 black leather with 6 compartments and raised bands, gilt titling to spine; blue cloth boards; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, o.w. Very Good, all maps Very Good, clean and intact; leather rubbed and scuffed, worn to edges (corners worn through), boards rubbed.

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