william collier leonhard schmitz (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Distinguished old atlas series. Possibly published 1873. Boards loose and weak on inside cover spine. Spine hardcover missing. But otherwise volume intact. 62 maps. Commentary by the editors. No total page numbers (maybe 250-300?). Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £14.30.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Yellow cloth cover over beveled boards with decoration in black and gilt, heavy wear to the spine and joints, minor rubbing and soiling, spine partially detached. Minor foxing on the endpapers, pages are lightly tanned and clean. Full-color maps.

leather. profusely illustrated (illustrator). 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. no dustwrapper. . 4to. Very Good in rubbed/scuffed boards Very Good in rubbed/scuffed boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 214, [110 maps], 142 [index] pages. "The continual extension of commerce into new channels, the rapid growth of the colonial possessions of the British Empire, the recent territorial changes in several kingdoms, both of Europe and Asia, and the many discoveries of late years in various parts of the world, have created a demand for a new treatise in Descriptive and Political Geography." - Preface. "A capital atlas of maps clearly printed in colours, and at the very low price of one guinea. The maps are not only ancient, modern and historical, out of the Northern and Southern Constellations, and of the Planetary System - indeed, all that can be wanted in an ordinary library. This excellent book meets with our hearty approval." - The Publishers' Circular, August 3, 1875, p.526. All maps in colour with with many hinged to fold out. Includes indices with upwards of 50,000 names. Pattern of tanning marks upon endpapers suggests boards once bore a protective cover, which would account for their still brilliant gilt lettering. Narrow opening along front hinge. Dark maroon cloth decorated in black over bevelled boards is worn through along bottom edges, corners and, in spots, along backstrip. Most maps numbered in light pencil. Fold of World Map [#2] mostly open with two-inch opening affecting northern Europe. G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York appears to have also published this work in 1875. A quality copy of this marvelous Victorian era cartographic memento.