Full title: The treasury of geography, physical, historical, descriptive, and political : containing a succinct account of every country in the world : preceded by an introductory outline of the history of geography, a familiar inquiry into the varieties of race and language exhibited by different nations, and a view of the relations of geography to astronomy and the physical sciences / designed and commenced by the late Samuel Maunder ; continued and completed by William Hughes, F.R.G.S., Late professor of geography in the College for Civil Engineers, author of a "Manual of geography," etc.

Author/creator: Maunder, Samuel, 1785-1849, Hughes, William, 1817-1876.

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Record Identifier: 74VKVEJ8VeWd

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource (x, 924, 24 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, folded maps, portraits., , , , Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- Australia -- Polynesia --Artic and Antartic regions.

Publishers: London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, MDCCCLX.

Notes: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood "The introductory portion of the volume, as far as page 20, is from Mr. Maunder's own pen. The account of Asiatic Turkey (pages 400 to 465) embodies material which had been collected by Mr. Maunder ... For all the remainder ... Mr. Hughes is alone responsible"--Page [v]. Includes index. Publisher's catalogue follows text and on endpapers. Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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