1853 Popular Geographical Library, The United States Of America, Climate, Soil, Etc. Leather Binding

. Robert Stewart, London printing. Three-quarter leather, spin ends, and points rubbed; 329 pages, add for work on Australia on Blank side of final leaf. Estate by state analysis of the Americas, including Missouri, territory, and Indian territory; the appendix includes a report of the superintendent of the census in the United States dated 1852. Half title present. “In modern times, especially at the present period, the general intercourse of knowledge, amongst all classes, – – the intimate commercial and political relations existing between civilized communities, – – and the universal of desire of all inquiring minds to become acquainted with distant countries, and with the inhabitants, condition, and productions of regions different from our own, – unite and rendering geographical knowledge interesting to the majority of the human family; while many it is indispensable, and qualifying them for the pursuit of commerce and industry, and for much of the current and daily avocations of life.”