[volvelles] A Grammar of General Geography for the Use of Schools and Young Persons with Maps and Engravings by the Rev J Goldsmith revised, corrected & greatly enlarged by Edward Hughes

London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1871. Cloth. Very Good. viii, 336, 28 (pub cat), [29]-32 (index) pages. 12 mo. 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Publisher's original cloth. Spine plain with blind tooling. Title stamped in gilt on front cover. Front flyleaf lacking. Previous owner name penciled on front pastedown. Original volvelle still attached to frontispiece and in near fine condition. Very occasional spotting. pp 35-38 proud of the textblock, loose and apparently not bound in originally (with associated fraying of edges).

This copy appears complete with the following folding maps and plates extra to the pagination:

MAPS (all (truncated) folding unless noted):
The World opposite page 12
Europe opposite p 14
British Isles opposite p 26
Central Europe opposite p 44
Asia opposite p 76
Canaan and Palestine opposite p 104 (2 maps on one foldout)
Africa opposite p 114
North America opposite p 130
South american opposite p 151
Australia, New Zealand & Islands adjacent opposite p 155
Map of the World, Exhibiting the Chief Physical Features of the Earth ... the temperature of the air currents of the ocean, &c opposite p. [161] (several fold tears and one near the attachment, no loss)

Engraved plates each a group of three vignettes on one page:
Opposite pages 32, 38, 64, 72, 88, 94, 112, 120, 144
Theory of tides opposite page 251
Projection of the sphere opposite p 274
Artificial globe and Armillary sphere opposite p 286. Cloth. 28 pages of advertisements in rear for Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co. dated September 1871. (Inventory #: 29244)