A School Atlas of physical political and commercial geography with descriptive letterpress

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1853. 8vo. Illustrated cloth boards with quarter calf binding (chipped). Gilt. Bound by Remont & Edwards (88pp.). Containing 17 hand-coloured maps. Inscribed by author Edward Hughes on title page. Significant foxing throughout otherwise fair copy. NOTE: Edward Hughes (1818-1876) was a cartographer and geographer. Containing detailed map showing all the gold fields in the south-eastern districts of Australia including cartographer's own remarks in the margins about the evidence of gold in Sydney jewellery shops of 1840.