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; a view of the relations of geography to astronomy and an essay on physical geography /. designed and commenced by the late Samuel Maunder ; continued and completed by William Hughes, ...
William Hughes (1817-1876)
Category
Books
Date
1866
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3231230
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition. [12], 892 p., plates (some fold.) : ill., maps ;.17 cm. Bookseller's ticket: From George Bubb (late J. Andrews) bookseller & librarian, 167, New Bond Street. Inscribed in pencil: Bubb. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of William Rowley [i.e. Lt.-Col. William Chambré Rowley, 6th Baron Langford of Summerhill (1849-1931)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; gilt tooled spine; five false bands; gold lettered spine label: Maunder's Treasury of geography.
Makers and roles
William Hughes (1817-1876) Samuel Maunder (1785-1849)