An Atlas Of Modern Geography.
£160.00
Publisher
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
Place
London
Date
1825
Synopsis
By samuel butler: d.d. author of modern and ancient geography for the use of schools.
Item Description
8vo. 8.5 x 6 inches. [2] engraved leaves + 21 maps (no pages of letterpress). Bound in half black leather over black boards, in black slipcase, map I, The World, reinforced by later black buckram. A little age related wear to edges and some scattered foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Early signature at head of title. Illustrated by 2 leaves engraved title and index (i.e. contents) and by 21 double folded leaves of engraved maps in outline colour, by Sidy. Hall, Bury Street, Bloomsby. World atlas for school use, with thirteen of its twenty one maps relating to Europe. Samuel Butler, D.D. (1774-1839) was Headmaster of Shrewsbury School from 1798, being created Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1836. First published 1822, when the author's An Atlas of Ancient Geography for schools also appeared. Twenty one finely engraved maps by Sidney Hall (1788?-1831), engraver and cartographer of Bury Street, Bloomsbury.
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