Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (3 Vol Set)
Author:
GARRAN, Hon. ANDREW & SCHELL, FREDERIC B. (Illus Supervision)
Title:
Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (3 Vol Set)
Publisher:
Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company 1888
Description:
HEAVY 3 VOL SET, folio, black leather boards, gilt lettering & rule to spines, aeg, gilt tooling to board inside edges, gilt rule & blind stamp decoration to boards, frontispieces with tissue guards, 800pp total + prelims to each vol, illus/maps, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spines & boards with moderate staining/soiling also, lacks loose railway/telegraph postal maps as is usually the case, Papua map in vol 3 loose but present, varying degrees of scuffing & chipping to board edges- internal, varying degrees of foxing sporadically throughout, loose map of PNG has heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges along with considerable soiling & foxing also) a beautful set despite damage, please feel free to request photos
Keywords:
Australasia maps cartography geography history historical geopolitics atlas atlases
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