From Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since May 18, 2007
About this Item
A wonderful fine binding of this thorough dictionary with folding maps. A pocket-sized dictionary to all things geographical, giving an insight into education of the world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Ownership inscription to 'Maria Windsor' dated May 30th 1803, following blank contains a 3rd prize inscription for a 'reward for improvement in Music, and Diligence and Application to that study'.Contains five colour folding maps.In a full straight grain morocco binding with gilt spine, borders and foredges. Externally lovely, very minor shelfwear to extremities. Ownership and prize inscription to front blanks. Internally, firmly bound, and pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 748R35
Bibliographic Details
Title: A Compendious Geographical Dictionary
Publisher: W. Peacock, London
Publication Date: 1795
Binding: Fine Binding
Illustrator: None
Condition: Near Fine
Book Type: book
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