Navy cloth boards with gold lettering. Light wear spine ends and corner points of boards. Binding is tight and square. Gold end papers. Pages are clean throughout. The dust jacket is within a protective mylar sleeve and has a closed tear on top front edge. Written by the foremost authority on place-naming. The culmination of a life-long fascination with his subject, the book encompasses the whole world of place-names.

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Title: Names on the Globe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1975
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195018958
ISBN 13: 9780195018950
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear on back cover of dj.) Hardcover first edition - New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1975.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear on back cover of dj.). First printing. A fascinating discussion of the human dimension of place names - that is who gave a place a particular name, how has it changed over the years, and why has it changed. Divided into four parts: Man, the Namer, The Mind of the Namer, Namers at Work, Place-names as Sources of Knowledge - and within these parts, he examines the evidence of archeologists, poets, explorers, colonizers, folklorists and more. Considered by some to be Stewart's greatest and most significant work. Author's note, index. ix, 411 pp.

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