The Lowery Collection: A Descriptive List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions within the Present Limits of the United States, 1502-1820

Lowery, Woddbury; Phillips, Philip Lee (Editor)

Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1912

About this Item

FIRST EDITION from 1912, this book comprises a thoroughly annotated list of all the maps of the areas specified in the title bequeathed to the U.S. Library of Congress in the 1906 will of historian & scholarly investigator Woodbury Lowery. Lovely decorative title page & portrait of Lowery as frontispiece; tissue overlay is intact. No other maps in book--just descriptions of the ones in Lowery's collection. The collection is described thoroughly, listed by year, with complete author & title indexes in rear. 567 pages. Condition is solidly VG: Hardcover has burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. It is an ex-library copy, but the call letter sticker from spine has been carefully removed; some stamps in the front matte, to outer top page edges, & on the corners of a few random pages. Otherwise, extremely clean, binding tight & square, pages lightly tanned around edges. Minor bumping & rubbing to corners & extremities. NO DJ, likely as issued. Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Seller Inventory # 012582

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Lowery Collection: A Descriptive List of...

Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Publication Date: 1912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket