The treasury of geography, physical, historical, descriptive, and political ; containing a succinct account of every country in the world: preceded by an introductory outline of the history of geography; a familiar inquiry into the varieties of race and language exhibited by different nations; and a view of the relations of geography to astronomy and the physical sciences.. Designed and commenced by the late Samuel Maunder; continued and completed by William Hughes, ...
Hughes, William
Category
Books
Date
1857
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3214821
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition: x, [2], 924 p., plates : ill., 7 fold. maps ; 18 cm. Bookseller’s ticket on pastedown: Bought of Willis and Sotheran, booksellers & bookbinders, 42, Charing Cross. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century grained calf; gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered red spine label.
Makers and roles
Hughes, William Samuel Maunder (1785-1849)