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A fascinating pair of planispheres designed with a practical purpose in ... "Modern Geography, For The Student, The Man Of Business, And All Classes Who Wish To Know Something Of The Habitable Globe; Containing All The Topographical, Physical, Historical, Commercial, And Political Facts Worthy Of Notice, Relating To Every Empire, Kingdom, Republic, State And Country In The World; Especially Of The British Empire. Also, A Treatise On The Newly-Invented Plane Globe, Containing A Copious Definition Of Scientific Terms, And Fifty-Three Problems, With Rules For Performing Them On The Plane Globe And Planetarian, So As To Illustrate The Pleasing Science Of Geography, And Some Of The Elements Of Astronomy, In The Way Usually Done By The Common Globe; The Whole Accompanying The Plane Terrestrial Globe". Title-page, cols. 1-140 with one inserted page of diagrams. Attractively bound in green boards. The northern and southern hemisphere plane globes appear inside the front and back covers pasted on cards, which revolve around central pivots traversed by brass latitude rules. Geographical detail includes a clearly defined Republic of Texas.
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