A System of Universal Geography, or a Description of all the Parts of the World, on a new Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe, Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables (Three Volumes)
Boston: Samuel Walker, 1834. Quarto. Item #022253
In three volumes with additions and corrections by James G. Percival, embellished with a complete atlas and a series of beautiful engravings. Collated finding 3 frontispieces, 3 engraved title pages and 3 regular title pages, 39 engraved plates of which two are folding and 28 maps. Volume I: xx, 640pp., volume II and III: with continuous pagination; xx, 680 and xv, 1394(1)pp. directions to the binder. Bound in contemporary calf trimmed in a decorative gilt design, spines ruled in gilt with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled with marbled endpapers, from the Hadley Young Man's Library with their gift plate and a few leaves discreetly marked with their stamp. Scattered foxing, toning or off-setting, previous owner's name dated 1845. A very good set.
Price: $400.00