A System of Modern Geography, Comprising a Description of the Present State of the World and its Five Great Divisions, America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceanica

Geography textbook, fourth revised edition has very worn boards, corners worn round, print hard to read, chips and tears, leather spine torn on front edge, while quite worn the text is still bright, rear top corner is cut off. Pen names and notes front and rear endpapers. 1852 copyright, 1855 printing. Doesn't include the Atlas, lots of woodcut illustrations, foxed occasional pencil notes, dogeared pages. 336 pages. First published in the 1840s, the work broke the world into five distinct grand divisions and featured an accompanying atlas of maps used to teach youth about global empires, kingdoms, and states. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.