An Atlas of Classical Geography.with A Sketch of Classical Geography and other Additions: Containing Fifty-two Maps and Plans on Twenty-six Plates, with an Index of Places With a Sketch of Classical Geography
by Hughes, William ; George Long (editor)
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea. Good. 1866. Hardcover. Text block unmarked, complete with all maps and securely stiched; binding lacks leather backstrip; cloth covered boards detached and worn at extremities. OCLC 15249384 This book measures 7 by 10 1/4 inches. Thirty-two pages of text, 17 double-page maps on guards (13.5" x 20"), 10 additional single page plates (6.75" X 10"). Maps are nicely engraved with territorial borders hand coloured in blue and red. Subjects include: Britannia, Gallia, Hispania, Italia (northern), Italia (southern), Plan of Rome, Roman Territory of Italy, Sicilia, Syracuse, Macedonia - Thracia-Illyricum, Graecia, Attica-Boetia-Phocus, Plan of Athens, Peloponnesus, Coasts and Islands of Aegean Sea, Asia Minor and Northern Syria, Palaestina, Assyria, Mauritania-Numidia-Africa, Arabia Petraea-Egypt, Germania Magna, and twelve Topographical Plans. Thirty-two pages of text 17 double-page maps, 10 additional single page plates. Less than two bucks a plate! .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44717
- Title
- An Atlas of Classical Geography.with A Sketch of Classical Geography and other Additions: Containing Fifty-two Maps and Plans on Twenty-six Plates, with an Index of Places With a Sketch of Classical Geography
- Author
- Hughes, William ; George Long (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Henry C. Lea
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1866
- Size
- 4to.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Steel engraved maps, 19th Century Maps, Ancient History, Classical Studies, Ancient Mediterranean, The Ancient World, Arabia Petraea-Egypt, Palaestina, Coasts and Islands of Aegean Sea
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- Maps;
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