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Stock# 109515
Description

Very Rare Russian Language Atlas

With an Original Photograph

Styled Vtoromu izdaniyu, or second edition, there are no records for any earlier edition in OCLC.  Published by F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, 1874.

This edition incorporates more visual material, with a focus on geographic and scientific accuracy. It also includes additional explanatory tables and new comparative sections to highlight trends in economic geography. New maps are introduced in this edition as well, including a map of Australia and Polynesia, updated to the latest surveys.

Rarity

Quite rare in the market. No examples noted in RBH. Only two examples noted in OCLC (University of Wisconsin and University of Kansas) plus an imperfect example in a German library.

 

Provenance

Includes a photo of ? Nikolai Tomanovski, taken in Riga in 1889, who is listed as the Donator.

Condition Description
Folio. Early 20th-century cloth-backed boards, with original pictorial cover laid on front board. [2] pages text plus 28 maps and plates (of 33). Most of the map are color lithographs. Lacks 5 maps and plates. Some minor occasional foxing. A few of the plates with paper reinforcement along fore-edge margin. Several of the maps with early pencil and colored-pencil annotations. Original cabinet card format photograph portrait mounted to endpaper of a young man, styled "Kommilitone" or "fellow student", Nikolai Tomarovsky, 1889, Dorpat Estonia. Photographer's name printed on mount: C. Schulz, Riga (Latvia): Carl Anton Schulz, a noted Latvian photographer whose son Arthur was active as a photographer in Dorpat.