Illustrated Universal Dictionary of Geography and Travel

Half brown sheepskin binding. Smooth spines adorned with gilt fillets. Interior with foxing. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings (maps, views, etc.). Text in 2 columns. Title page missing from volume 1. This dictionary includes in alphabetical order (A-E and F-Z): The physical, political, economic, ethnographic description of all states and countries of the globe, with their subdivisions, the archaeological and picturesque description of all cities, villages, hamlets, containing monuments, natural and artificial curiosities, and evoking historical memories, detailed articles on the main mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, gulfs, capes, straits, etc., studies on the customs and practices of different peoples according to the latest official data and the most recent accounts of great explorers

• - Number of volumes: 2 volumes
• - Format: In-4
• - Binding: Reliés
• - Collation: Tome 1: 824 pp.Tome 2: 892 pp