[volvelles] A Grammar of General Geography for the Use of Schools and Young Persons with Maps and Engravings by the Rev J Goldsmith revised, corrected & greatly enlarged by Edward Hughes

viii, 336, 28 (pub cat), [29]-32 (index) pages. 12 mo. 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Publisher's original cloth. Spine plain with blind tooling. Title stamped in gilt on front cover. Front flyleaf lacking. Previous owner name penciled on front pastedown. Original volvelle still attached to frontispiece and in near fine condition. Very occasional spotting. pp 35-38 proud of the textblock, loose and apparently not bound in originally (with associated fraying of edges). This copy appears complete with the following folding maps and plates extra to the pagination: MAPS (all folding unless noted): The World opposite page 12 Europe opposite p 14 British Isles opposite p 26 Central Europe opposite p 44 Asia opposite p 76 Canaan and Palestine opposite p 104 (2 maps on one foldout) Africa opposite p 114 North America opposite p 130 South american opposite p 151 Australia, New Zealand & Islands adjacent opposite p 155 Map of the World, Exhibiting the Chief Physical Features of the Earth . the temperature of the air currents of the ocean, &c opposite p. [161] (several fold tears and one near the attachment, no loss) Engraved plates each a group of three vignettes on one page: Opposite pages 32, 38, 64, 72, 88, 94, 112, 120, 144 Theory of tides opposite page 251 Projection of the sphere opposite p 274 Artificial globe and Armillary sphere opposite p 286. Cloth. 28 pages of advertisements in rear for Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co. dated September 1871.…