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Gregoire, Louis

Gregoire, Louis. Géographie génerale physique, politique et économique. Avec 100 cartes, de nombreuses gravures intercalées dans le texte, types en chromo (colored) et gravures sur acier, hors texte. Garnier Frères, Paris, no date. End of 19th century.
Thick hardbound 4:o in publishers red morrocobacked binding decorated in gilt on boards. All edges gilt. Slight wear to extremities. Bound by Ch. Magnier. Slightly foxed endpapers and halftitle and a few pages and plates foxed in margins. Mostly a clean copy. With hundreds of woodcuts in the text, 100 partly colored maps, 20 steelengravings with tissue-guards and 16 tissueguarded coloured chromo lithograps. The colored plates are native portraits while many steelengravings are townviews. 1206 p. , (II).