Author: BLACKIE, W. G..
Title: The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World: Comprising an Extensive Series of Maps, a Description, Physical and Political, of All the Countries of the Earth; a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Geographical Names, and a Copious Index of Geographical Positions Also Numerous Illustrations Printed in the Text and a Series of Coloured Engravings Representing the Principal Races of Mankind.
Description: London, Blackie & Son Ltd, 1883. Folio, 32 cm. x 42 cm. half calf, morocco label, raised bands to spine, brown pebble-grain boards, lettered and ruled in gilt. Speckled edges, marbled end-papers, ix [iii] 304 pp, 10 chromolithographs, 67 double page coloured maps, 96 pp. index, woodcuts in-text throughout. A very handsome copy of this impressive work. Tight and bright. Some mild damp spotting to prelims. plates generally clean. Small ink blot to upper board. Little used. Complete. With census results for some countries and comprehensive indices. Maps drawn and engraved mainly by either Edw. Weller, Bloomsbury, or J. Bartholomew, Edinburgh.

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