Sale 671: Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography (#671) 04/18/2019 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 114 of 312:
Black's General Atlas of the World 1888  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$420
Estimate:
$400 - $600

Title:
Black's General Atlas of the World...Embracing the Latest Discoveries, New Boundaries, and Other Changes Accompanied by Introductory Letterpress and Index

Author:
Black, Adam and Charles

Place:
Edinburgh

Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black

Date:
1888

Description:

32, 70 pp. plus [100 (of 102)] leaves of plates: 54 illustrations, color maps, frontispiece. (Folio), brown and green morocco lettered in gilt, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands. New and Revised Edition. 

Black’s colorful general atlas, originally published shortly after the Civil War, with double-page maps throughout. This copy lacking the double page map of England and Wales (IX, X). With the armorial bookplate of Hellier R.H. Gosselin of Bengeo Hall, Hertford, mayor of Hertford, 1897-1899.

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Condition:
Rubbing to boards; front hinge cracked, a few small labels at bottom edge of front pastedown; interior bright with scattered finger soiling to margins; very good


 
Item number:
304477
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