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352 Geografia

Marmocchi, Francesco Costantino

Universal geography atlas preceded by a dictionary [...], 1840

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Florence, Vincenzo Batelli and Compagni, 1840. In 2 °. With 67 tables of geographical maps (numbered LVIII), astronomical, orographic and hydrographic, including large folded ones, with a slight period coloring, slight blooms, some papers with slight browning, pl. XVII with small tears with a gap on the left side, pl. XXXV and XXXVI (A) with small internal tear, XXXVI (B) and LIII with internal tear and external margin, contemporary leather binding, title spine and gold friezes, spray cuts, defects. & Nbsp;

Specialist Notes

The last table is numbered LVIII, but some previous tables have bis. & Nbsp; An authoritative geographer, as well as a fervent and active Mazzinian, Marmocchi (Poggibonsi 1805 - Genoa 1858) elaborated important works of statistical-descriptive geography, dedicating himself with passion for exploration and travel relationships. Relevant for his time is the approach to the discipline "understood as a science of the territory, but also as a comparative description of the socio-economic conditions and ways of organizing the States" (Landucci, p. 387)