Bibliotheca geographica & historica, or, A catalogue of a nine days sale of rare & valuable ancient and modern books, maps, charts, manuscripts, autograph letters ...
Subtitle: Part I : collected, used and described, with an introduction on the progress of geography ... together with an essay upon the Stevens system of photobibliography
By: by Henry Stevens
Publisher: Henry Stevens
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Bibliography; Catalogs; Early printed books; Rare books; Book auctions
Other titles: Bibliotheca geographica et historica; Catalogue of a nine days sale of rare & valuable ancient and modern books; Catalogue of a nine days sale of rare and valuable ancient and modern books; Bibliotheca geographica
Notes: Auction catalog with 3,109 lots.

No more published.

First issue, wanting the 14-page introduction (essay on photobibliography) and with the frontispiece captioned in ms.

Two later issues are known. The second issue is printed, in "a few copies" only, on thick paper and is illustrated with ca. 400 mounted photographs. The third issue has an added 14-page introduction and the frontispiece has a printed caption.

The 2 ill. are mounted photographs (albumen prints), consisting of a frontispiece reproducing the t.p. to lot 2461, and a circular t.p. vignette of "Ptolemy's World by Mercator 1578".

"To be dispersed by auction by Messrs Puttick & Simpson ... London the 19th to 29th November 1872."