[Rarebooks] fa: DICTIONARY OF COMMERCE AND COMMERCIAL NAVIGATION 1837 - 1400+pp./Folding Maps

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, October 13. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

J. R. McCulloch: A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. A New Edition, Corrected and Improved, with an Enlarged Supplement, Containing Many New Articles, and Bringing Down the Information Contained in the Work to December, 1836. London: Longman, Rees [et al], 1837. Tall, thick 8vo (23 x 14 x 9 cm) bound in early vellum and marbled boards with original printed paper spine label; 1269 + 118 + 16 pp.; with six folding maps and numerous in-text maps and plans, tables and charts (complete).

Monumental compendium of information on the world of domestic and international commerce, with essay-length articles on ale and beer, banking, insurance, opium, sugar, railways, tariffs, warehousing, wine,  zinc, etc, etc. Not the most ergonomically designed of volumes, but impressive in its scope. With folding maps of: The World on Mercator's Projection ** Central & Southern Europe with the Mediterranean Sea ** Navigable Rivers, and the completed and proposed canals & rail-roads of Great Britain & Ireland with the coal fields, light houses etc. ** British Possessions in North America with part of the United States. With city/harbor plans of Montreal and Quebec (partly hand-colored) ** River Thames with the docks from Blackwall to the Tower ** South West part of Lancashire with the entrances to the Rivers Mersey & Dee.

The binding is in some need of binder's glue, but the contents are very good: the vellum spine and the boards have come neatly detached from the spine and hinges, but the massive text block is, remarkably, intact; short crack to the vellum at the top of the front joint; light toning to the text, a few creases and mild toning to the folding maps; otherwise quite clean and sound.