ATLAS OF ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. James Perrin Smith Copy; 27 Maps
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:7687802 | Subject: Geography; Classics |
| Place of Publication: Lon | Topic: Atlas |
| Publisher: Dent | Original/Facsimile: Original |
| Year Printed: 1909 |
ATLAS OF ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 8vo professionally rebound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Lon & NY: Dent / Dutton, 1909. Second reprint after the 1907 first edition; xi, xxvii (colored maps, most of them folding), 93p. TEG, fore-edge untrimmed. Signature on half-title of James Perrin Smith, for many years professor of geology and paleontology at Stanford University in California. He was best known for his study of the Mesozoic rock for...mations of the western United States and their contained fossil faunas, especially the ammonites. His early education was obtained largely at home under the tutelage of his parents and his older brother Charles, who was later to become a noted professor of the classics at the University of Wisconsin. Perrin had a lifelong interest in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome largely because of his brother's influence. He read the works of Homer and Sophocles, as well as much of Herodotus. Later signature of Stavros Deligiorgis, emeritus professor at the University of Iowa, dated 1964 when he was a graduate student at Berkeley. Engraved Dent title page by R K. Fine, and scarce in this condition. [LR $30.00]Retiring from the book business after more than 47 years; all prices drastically reduced; all items sold as is; no returns. Contact us for any questions regarding condition, shipping, or payment.
