Catalogue des Cartes & Ouvrages Geographiques qui composent le Cabinet de…

by Simon Schropp, publisher Comp., bookseller

$1,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Engraved calligraphic title, xii, 199 pp. 8vo, orig. cloth-backed printed slick orange boards a little worn . Berlin: September 1805. This is apparently the first catalogue of globes, maps, and printed geographical works issued by Schropp 1751-1817 , the leading publisher and bookseller in cartographical materials in Berlin of his time. Approximately 2500 items are listed, all priced. Due to Schropp’s successes, the manufacture of globes shifted

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