Physical Atlas with Coloured Maps, Showing the Geographical Distribution of Plants Yielding Food; Climates; Flora; Soils; Regions of Summer Rains; Geological Formations and Hydrography of the Dominion of Canada

Hurlbert, J. Beaufort

Verlag: Ottawa Canadian Ministry of Agriculture 1880, 1880

Beschreibung

1st Edition. 36 + 10 mapspp. Folio. Brown pebbled cloth with gilt titles and blindstamped designed to front board. Head and tail of spine and corners with discrete professional restoration. Boards lightly rubbed. Endpapers with some age-toning. Edges of two pages and rear pastedown with a few small chips and a few maps with very small marginal tear where map inserts into text block, else a bright, clean and attractive copy. very good An interesting coloured atlas of Canada, intended by the author to dispel the prevailing myth that Canada was "Like Greenland, a cold, barren country, thinly inhabited by Esquimaux and other savages, and the soil so rocky and thin that only moss, shrubs and a few scattered trees can grow upon it". To this end, the 10 fold-out colour maps depict a variety of natural and botanic aspects of the country, including the climate, crops, flora and geological formations from coast to coast to coast. Each map is accompanied by a few explanatory pages of text. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 136648

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Physical Atlas with Coloured Maps, Showing ...

Verlag: Ottawa Canadian Ministry of Agriculture 1880

Erscheinungsdatum: 1880

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: very good

Auflage: 1. Auflage