Van Loon's geography : the story of the world we live in / written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944)
Category
Books
Date
1932
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3252781
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 525, [1] p., [38] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Fourth printing, October 1932. Loosely inserted: coloured illustration of ships sailing by a coastal town. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper: 'The / Whaler / Book shop inc. / 106 School Street / New Bedford'. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's maroon cloth; coloured pictorial paper label (illustration of Atlantic Ocean) pasted onto upper board; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944), author