Louis Grégoire - Géographie générale physique, politique et économique - 1876

Fascinating beautifully bound edition illustrated with numerous wood engravings in the text, 20 finely engraved steel plates of city views, 100 geographical maps and 16 splendid chromolithographic plates depicting popular characters and costumes -

The author begins by outlining the fundamental principles of physical geography, describing the shape of the Earth, its rotation and revolution movements, the methods of measuring the globe, geographical coordinate systems, maps, cartographic projections, and the main instruments used for observing and representing the Earth's surface -

He then analyzes the composition of relief by studying mountains, Alpine chains, plateaus, plains, valleys, basins, volcanoes, and geological phenomena that explain their formation, while presenting the great natural divisions of continents and oceans -

Special attention is given to hydrography, with the study of seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, sources, glaciers, and the major river basins, whose influence on navigation, agriculture, trade, and the development of civilizations is continually highlighted -

Louis Grégoire - General Physical, Political and Economic Geography - 1876 - Garnier Frères -
1208 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original green half-leather, green percaline boards, wear from use, speckled edges, finely decorated spine with nerves, gilded lettering and author’s name, black-ruled frames surrounding the boards -

Good interior condition, some foxing, work enriched with numerous wood engravings in the text, 20 finely engraved steel plates of city views, 100 geographic maps and 16 splendid chromolithographic plates representing popular characters and costumes, marbled endpapers in good condition, a handsome copy -

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