ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.
by JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith, LL.D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. New Edition".. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, original publisher's full brown cloth heavily blocked in black & gilt on front panel, block in blind on rear cover. With 20 tipped in double-page maps [all maps are on guards and can be laid flat without loss], + 23 pp Index at rear. Yellow coated endpapers with publisher's advertising. The original owner (one S.P. Ambrose) has affixed his hand-written school schedule to the front paste-down, and written his name multiple times throughout the volume. Each map is titled in ink on the blank recto of the first leaf; one of the maps (England & Wales) is marked up in pencil; several blank leaves have the child's graffiti / drawings on them. Overall, the effect is quite charming. Being in use with children in British Private Schools, most copies would have perished; a rare survival. A very good copy, overall.
¶ A rare Victorian children's school atlas; this apparently is the more deluxe and elaborate binding format. There are copies listed in Worldcat, & no copies currently for sale.
¶ A rare Victorian children's school atlas; this apparently is the more deluxe and elaborate binding format. There are copies listed in Worldcat, & no copies currently for sale.
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- Bookseller
- Thompson Rare Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 311005
- Title
- ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.
- Author
- JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith, LL.D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition".
- Publisher
- W. & A.K. Johnston
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1886
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian Books;
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- Octavo
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- Recto
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- Cloth
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- Tipped In
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- Paste-down
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- Gilt
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