William Collier Leonhard Schmitz (11 results)

Condition: New.

Embossed Cloth. Condition: Good. No DJ. 28 pps. + 16 maps + 14 maps + 10 pps. Titles: frt. bd. Red & blak embossed bds. N. D. Sp. ends curled & frayed. Exterior wear. Cors. bumped & frayed. Eps. age-toned. P/o name on f.f.e.p. with date 1890. Very nice old atlas with copious indices and maps of the Ancient World.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Distinguished old atlas series. Possibly published 1873. Boards loose and weak on inside cover spine. Spine hardcover missing. But otherwise volume intact. 62 maps. Commentary by the editors. No total page numbers (maybe 250-300?). Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £14.30. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No date but probably around 1877, wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, boards showing, top and bottom of spine chipped and worn, edges fraying, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, all maps present and most in good condition, some wear to edges and corners and a few small marks on edge, a few have rips on the center folds, the largest is 8 cm, there is also a rip on the top edge of map 21. India, front and rear hinges cracked and webbing showing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Red hardcover book with matching and gold text. Some colour splashes on the front cover and potential discolouring of the page edges, but the book and its contents are in immaculate condition. Index is 56 pages.

Small folio, half bound, brown cloth boards, gilt decorative rule to maroon spine, spine sides & board corners, gilt lettering to spine, aeg, 219pp + 114pp maps + 71pp index, illus & many with tissue guard, VG- (front board completely detached, leather spine present & partly attached but in ruins, some chaffing to boards, 4cm x 1cm tear with loss of leather to side of board, moderate foxing to prelims, light sporadic foxing elsewhere, page 57 loose). State of binding of text block is sounder than description would indicate. 9 of 16 chromolithographs present; missing are Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, Pekin, New York and Melbourne. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Repaired, No date but assumed to be late 1800s, some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, spine repaired / replaced with fabric, section of original spine containing titles retained and stuck to replacement, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, front and rear hinges repaired / reinforced with tape. 6.2 kg 47 cm x 38 cm x 6 cm. The price includes postage and packing to a UK Mainland address, due to the weight (6.2kg) there will be an additional charge to everywhere else, please ask for a quote.…

leather. Superior single-volume late 19th-Century collection of maps (all maps full-colour, hinged and double-page), consisting of 98 maps of countries the world over, 2 double-page maps of the Constellations (Northern and Southern hemispheres), and 16 colour figures of Planetary Systems (Ptolemy and Tycho-Brahe), Celestial Planisphere, Terrestrial Globe, Armillary Sphere, Theory of Tides, Phases of Moon, etc); texts by James Bryce (Modern Geography), William F. Collier (Historical Geography), and Leonhard Schmitz (Classical Geography), and with copious indices containing upwards of 50,000 names; no date to title page, Preface dated 1876; bound in 3/4 black leather with 6 compartments and raised bands, gilt titling to spine; blue cloth boards; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, o.w. Very Good, all maps Very Good, clean and intact; leather rubbed and scuffed, worn to edges (corners worn through), boards rubbed. no dustwrapper. . 4to. Very Good in rubbed/scuffed boards Very Good in rubbed/scuffed boards. profusely illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 214, [110 maps], 142 [index] pages. "The continual extension of commerce into new channels, the rapid growth of the colonial possessions of the British Empire, the recent territorial changes in several kingdoms, both of Europe and Asia, and the many discoveries of late years in various parts of the world, have created a demand for a new treatise in Descriptive and Political Geography." - Preface. "A capital atlas of maps clearly printed in colours, and at the very low price of one guinea. The maps are not only ancient, modern and historical, out of the Northern and Southern Constellations, and of the Planetary System - indeed, all that can be wanted in an ordinary library. This excellent book meets with our hearty approval." - The Publishers' Circular, August 3, 1875, p.526. All maps in colour with with many hinged to fold out. Includes indices with upwards of 50,000 names. Pattern of tanning marks upon endpapers suggests boards once bore a protective cover, which would account for their still brilliant gilt lettering. Narrow opening along front hinge. Dark maroon cloth decorated in black over bevelled boards is worn through along bottom edges, corners and, in spots, along backstrip. Most maps numbered in light pencil. Fold of World Map [#2] mostly open with two-inch opening affecting northern Europe. G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York appears to have also published this work in 1875. A quality copy of this marvelous Victorian era cartographic memento.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, William Collins, Sons and Company, 1873, original decorated cover (in black and gold), blind stamp decoration on back board, beveled edges, about 11 X 7 ½ inches, 28 pages of text, 62 colored maps (some double-page) and 55 pages of index. Cover is in very good condition ; complete, clean and solid, showing some light wear and rubbing to boards extremities. Interior is fine, complete, clean, tightly bound, with a light tanning to pages. All maps looking fresh except for the very light tanning. WARNING ; This book will requires additional postage for international delivery (out of America) , please ask me before command.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 378.