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Thomas Keith : A New Treatise on the use of the Globes; or a Philosophical View of the Earth and Heavens

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London, 1858

contemporary full cloth with embossed straight lined boarder. Spine with 5 compartments of blind tooled bands. Gilt lettering on two. Paste down endpaper is an advertisment., A very good copy, plates are clean and crisp, 8vo, P. title, printer’s imprint, iii-xxiv, 1-423, printer’s imprint, plates, 1-12, 9 folding plates depicting various images of globes are located at the end of the book.

The book has gone through various editions and the editors “have found it necessary to make numerous additions and alterations. Thos parts of the original treaties which were behind the present state of science, have been so revised as to present to the reader a brief, but, it is hoped, an intelligible outline of the important discoveries recently made in Astronomy and Physical Geography” (preface)

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