A gazetteer of the world, or Dictionary of geographical knowledge, . compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of modern geography, physical, political, statistical, historical, and ethnographical. Edited by a Member of the Royal Geographical Society. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts and one hundred and twenty engravings on steel.
Member of the Royal Geographical Society
Category
Books
Date
1851 - 1856
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3114643.12
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.12 . ill.., maps . 28cm..Extra-illustrated. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full black blind-embossed cloth; as issued.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Member of the Royal Geographical Society