Skip to content

A Geographical Present by Mary Anne Venning - 1818: Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World

by Mary Anne Venning

Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
A Geographical Present by Mary Anne Venning - 1818

A Geographical Present: Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World

by Mary Anne Venning

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover

Very good copy of the second edition (first published in 1817) of this popular educational book by woman writer Mary Anne Venning

Complete with 60 charming handcoloured wood engravings of costumes of the world

There are fine gentlemen and ladies of London and Paris, Bohemian peasants, Catalonians dancing the Fandango (possibly flamenco?), Hungarian hussars, itinerant Savoyards, Laplanders (Saami) riding reindeer-driven sleds, Greeks, Russians, Armenians and Turks.

There are many fascinating plates of African peoples from Mamluks and Copts in Egypt, native peoples of Tunisia, Senegal, Cazegut (Bissagos Islands), Cacongo (Angola), Issinia (Guinea), Congo, Jagga (Chaga) people of Tanzania, Khoikhoi from South Africa, Zulus from Natal, etc.

There are also several Native American peoples including Iroquois of Canada, natives of Virginia and California, Carib of Martinique, Aztecs of Mexico, Inca of Peru, natives of Guianna (Guyana) and Yaghan people of the Land of Fire (Tierra del Fugo).

Also includes Otaheiteans (natives of Tahiti) and other Polynesian peoples of St. Christian (Nuku Hiva), Isle of Paques (Easter Island), and Isle of Tanna (Vanuatu).

Although unsigned, it is likely the engravings were drawn and engraved by William Darton (1775-1819) and his son Samuel Darton (1785-1840), Quaker engravers and printers of educational books for children. Darton was to publish many woman educational writers including Patricia Wakefield, Sarah Waring, Sarah Candler, Agnes Strickland, Ann Taylor, etc.

Little is known of the author Mary Anne Venning. From the titles of her published books, it appears she started off writing moralistic works for children (A Commonplace Book 1802 and Simple Pleasures 1811) before turning to geography (A Geographical Present 1817) and finally science (A Botanical Catechism 1825, Rudiments of Conchology 1826 and Rudiments of Mineralogy 1830).

According to Megan Nourcia in X Marks the Spot, Venning's most successful work "skillfully blends quantative statistics about manufactures and major rivers with qualitative judgments about national greatness. The combination propelled the text into two more editions in 1818 and 1820, and it was later published in America as three separate volumes on Europe, Asia and Africa."

Bound in red cloth spine with gilt title "The World" and year "1818," blue marble boards, new endpapers, neatly repaired tear to frontis, some spotting and foxing, dust to edges of pages, but most plates clean and sharp with rich handcolour.

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores JP (JP)
  • Illustrator [William Darton, Samuel Darton]
  • Format/Binding Cloth spine and marble boards
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition None
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition Second
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Darton, Harvey and Darton
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1818
  • Pages 144
  • Size 12mo, 15 x 10cm
  • Keywords William Darton, Samuel Darton, Mary Anne Venning, A Geographical Present, educational, children's books, illustrated, handcoloured, engravings, costume, travel, people
  • Size 12mo, 15 x 10cm

We have 3 copies available starting at £19.60.

The Boys of Axleford
More Photos

The Boys of Axleford

by Charles Camden

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Excellent condition for age
Jacket Condition
NA
Edition
First Edition thus
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Dallas, Texas, United States
Item Price
£283.99

Show Details

Description:
Item Description:Book is in Excellent condition for age. No DJAn anthology of fictional stories about several boys at the Axleford school for boys.Hard to find first edition, 1880, George Routledge & SonsNicely Illustrated by Gettie, Houghton, Fraser, Mahoney, Walker and French.Remarkably clean pages for ageSmall amount of separation at front / rear hinges, but minimalSome surface wear,Gift inscription at the front of the book in ink.
Item Price
£283.99
Trial of Mary Ann Burdock for the Wilful Murder of Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, by Administering...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
London: Printed by P. Rose and Son, Broadmed, Bristol, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. 44pp. Contemporary cloth backed boards, portrait frontispiece. With the bookplate of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet, on the front board and the front pastedown endpaper and the small, gilt bookplate of Alexander McGrigor on the front free endpaper. Also with the small blind stamp of Crendon Hall on the title page and first page. In his book "On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine" (Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1848), Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor states: "The great value of chemical evidence in otherwise doubtful cases of poisoning, was never more strongly shown than at the trial of Mary Ann Burdock at Bristol, in 1835... The body of the deceased had been buried fourteen months: it was exhumed, and the poison discovered in the stomach and viscera." This advance in forensic science led to a substantial increase in poisoning trials. Chipping to spine, some soiling to boards. Internally clean… Read More
Item Price
£438.16
The Merry Philosopher; or, Thoughts on Jesting. Containing Rules by Which a Proper Judgment of...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
London: Printed for J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1765. Hardcover. Second edition in English after the one printed in 1764. 213pp + 1p of advertisements. Recent mottled half calf over marbled boards, raised bands and gold decorations and lettering on the spine, all edges marbled. Light toning to text block, some mild scattered foxing, minor annotations in pencil, name on title. A clean, near fine copy. ; 12mo.
Item Price
£438.16
Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, faisant suite au manuel du librairie; et dans lequel on trouvera,...

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. 448, 12pp; 431, 17pp; 303pp + foldout tables. Contemporary quarter calf over cloth, spines elaborately decorated in gold, marbled endpapers. Each volume is signed by the author. An in-depth history of engraving in Europe from the early 1400s to the late 1700s. Includes biographical notes on the artists and tables with the engravers' monograms. Wear to extremities, two tears to cloth (to lower edge of volume two and three), some annotations in pencil on the margins, small note affixed to the front pastedown endpaper of volume one (with an explanation in Italian on how to clean old prints). ; Octavo.
Item Price
£413.81
Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. The Second Edition with Additions
More Photos

Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. The Second Edition with Additions

by Bordley, John Beale

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used
Edition
Second Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Schenectady, New York, United States
Item Price
£438.16

Show Details

Description:
Philadelphia: Printed by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1801. Second Edition. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged. viii, 536, 8, [21]pp. Contemporary full tree calf, red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Marbled endpapers. According to the author, almost eighty pages of additions and two extra copper plates were included in this edition. With three engraved plates (one foldout), and tables. Includes chapters on grain rotations, beans, maize and wheat culture, farm-yard manure, barns, cattle stalls, cattle pastured and soiled, observations on cattle, sheep, and hogs, fences, butter, rice, potato spirit and beer, thoughts on hired labourers, and more. Also includes an interesting recipe for Parmesan (Parmigiano) or Lodian cheese. Wear to extremities, several wormholes throughout (usually minor), plates I and II were excised, tear to plate V, some scattered soiling, owner's inscription on title. A fair copy. Uncommon. Sabin 6414.; Octavo.
Item Price
£438.16
The Boys of Axleford
More Photos

The Boys of Axleford

by Charles Camden

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Excellent condition for age
Jacket Condition
NA
Edition
First Edition thus
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Dallas, Texas, United States
Item Price
£283.99

Show Details

Description:
Item Description:Book is in Excellent condition for age. No DJAn anthology of fictional stories about several boys at the Axleford school for boys.Hard to find first edition, 1880, George Routledge & SonsNicely Illustrated by Gettie, Houghton, Fraser, Mahoney, Walker and French.Remarkably clean pages for ageSmall amount of separation at front / rear hinges, but minimalSome surface wear,Gift inscription at the front of the book in ink.
Item Price
£283.99
Trial of Mary Ann Burdock for the Wilful Murder of Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, by Administering...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
London: Printed by P. Rose and Son, Broadmed, Bristol, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. 44pp. Contemporary cloth backed boards, portrait frontispiece. With the bookplate of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet, on the front board and the front pastedown endpaper and the small, gilt bookplate of Alexander McGrigor on the front free endpaper. Also with the small blind stamp of Crendon Hall on the title page and first page. In his book "On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine" (Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1848), Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor states: "The great value of chemical evidence in otherwise doubtful cases of poisoning, was never more strongly shown than at the trial of Mary Ann Burdock at Bristol, in 1835... The body of the deceased had been buried fourteen months: it was exhumed, and the poison discovered in the stomach and viscera." This advance in forensic science led to a substantial increase in poisoning trials. Chipping to spine, some soiling to boards. Internally clean… Read More
Item Price
£438.16
The Merry Philosopher; or, Thoughts on Jesting. Containing Rules by Which a Proper Judgment of...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
London: Printed for J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1765. Hardcover. Second edition in English after the one printed in 1764. 213pp + 1p of advertisements. Recent mottled half calf over marbled boards, raised bands and gold decorations and lettering on the spine, all edges marbled. Light toning to text block, some mild scattered foxing, minor annotations in pencil, name on title. A clean, near fine copy. ; 12mo.
Item Price
£438.16
Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, faisant suite au manuel du librairie; et dans lequel on trouvera,...

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. 448, 12pp; 431, 17pp; 303pp + foldout tables. Contemporary quarter calf over cloth, spines elaborately decorated in gold, marbled endpapers. Each volume is signed by the author. An in-depth history of engraving in Europe from the early 1400s to the late 1700s. Includes biographical notes on the artists and tables with the engravers' monograms. Wear to extremities, two tears to cloth (to lower edge of volume two and three), some annotations in pencil on the margins, small note affixed to the front pastedown endpaper of volume one (with an explanation in Italian on how to clean old prints). ; Octavo.
Item Price
£413.81
Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. The Second Edition with Additions
More Photos

Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. The Second Edition with Additions

by Bordley, John Beale

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used
Edition
Second Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Schenectady, New York, United States
Item Price
£438.16

Show Details

Description:
Philadelphia: Printed by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1801. Second Edition. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged. viii, 536, 8, [21]pp. Contemporary full tree calf, red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Marbled endpapers. According to the author, almost eighty pages of additions and two extra copper plates were included in this edition. With three engraved plates (one foldout), and tables. Includes chapters on grain rotations, beans, maize and wheat culture, farm-yard manure, barns, cattle stalls, cattle pastured and soiled, observations on cattle, sheep, and hogs, fences, butter, rice, potato spirit and beer, thoughts on hired labourers, and more. Also includes an interesting recipe for Parmesan (Parmigiano) or Lodian cheese. Wear to extremities, several wormholes throughout (usually minor), plates I and II were excised, tear to plate V, some scattered soiling, owner's inscription on title. A fair copy. Uncommon. Sabin 6414.; Octavo.
Item Price
£438.16
No image available

A Geographical Present: Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World

by Mary Anne Venning

  • New
Condition
New
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780371130698 / 0371130697
Quantity Available
10
Seller
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£19.60

Show Details

Description:
New.
Item Price
£19.60
No image available

A Geographical Present; Being Descriptions Of The Principal Countries Of The World

by Venning Mary Anne

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Fair +
Edition
2nd Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Herts, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£79.95

Show Details

Description:
Darton, Harvey, And Darton, 1818. Book. Fair +. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Quarter maroon leather. Spine has large loss and cracks. Heavy rubbing to boards. Hinges cracked inside covers with contents being a bit shaken. 144pp. 60 hand coloured plates (one with a tear). Foxing to pages..
Item Price
£79.95
No image available

A Geographical Present; Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World

by Venning, Mary Anne

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
, rebacked and with new endpapers, boards a little rubbed, some of the plates have been neatly coloured by a previous owner, occ
Edition
Third Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£120.00

Show Details

Description:
, 144 pages, complete with 60 plates (approx 24 have been hand coloured)
Item Price
£120.00
Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)

Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)

by Claire, Erin St (Sandra Brown)

  • Used
  • very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780373482474 / 0373482477
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Olive Hill, Kentucky, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£2.43

Show Details

Description:
Silhouette, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Sandra Brown writing as Erin St. Claire, 253 pgs
Item Price
£2.43
Bloody Sunrise
More Photos

Bloody Sunrise

by Spillane, Mickey

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£8.90£5.34
Save £4.39!

Show Details

Description:
1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
Item Price
£8.90£5.34
Save £4.39 !
The Birth and Death of Meaning:  An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
More Photos

The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man

by Becker, Ernest

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
2nd
Binding
Paperback
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£8.11

Show Details

Description:
New York: The Free Press, 1971. Second Edition. Contents include: The Man-Apes; The Origins of the Mind; The Distinctive Human; The Inner World; Socialization: the Creation of the Inner World; The New Meaning of the Oedipus Complex; Self-Esteem; Culture and Personality; Social Encounters: The Staging of Self-Esteem; Culture: the Relativity of Hero-Systems; What is Normal?; What Would A Science of Man Then Be?; Religion: The Quest for the Ideal Heroism. 228 pages. Edgewear; light wear to covers; worn corners and light creases on spine. Deeply creased spine opens flat at pages 60/61. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Item Price
£8.11
More Than Forever
More Photos

More Than Forever

by McLean, Jay

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781505999471 / 1505999472
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£8.11

Show Details

Description:
2014. Book Four in the More Than Series 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Please note: This book has a Mature Readers Advisory. From back: "Lucy - There is love so fierce it cannot be measured... Cameron - Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. THere is no measure of time... But our forever isn't always." Creased back cover and last few pages, worn corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.
Item Price
£8.11
Unreal Tournament Bradygames Official Strategy Guide
More Photos

Unreal Tournament Bradygames Official Strategy Guide

by Marcus, Phillip

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780744009552 / 0744009553
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£8.11

Show Details

Description:
Bradbury & Evans, 2007. Covers PC-CD ROM/DVD ROM & Playstation 3 Computer Entertainment System 4to sized softcover; 271 heavy glossy pages with color illustrations throughout Brand new, but note some edgewear and blemish to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Item Price
£8.11
Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
More Photos

Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations

by Shoemaker, J. W

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good+
Jacket Condition
None
Edition
1906
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£14.61£10.95
Save £4.50!

Show Details

Description:
Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
Item Price
£14.61£10.95
Save £4.50 !
A Million Miles from Boston
More Photos

A Million Miles from Boston

by Day, Karen

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
First
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780385738996 / 0385738994
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£8.93

Show Details

Description:
2011. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 215 pages. Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition From jacket: "(Lucy) wants to get out of Boston and forget her worries about starting middle school and about her father's new girlfriend. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself, and where memories of her mother, who died when Lucy was six, are strong and sacred. But this summer, nothing is the same. Ian, a boy from home in Boston, comes to Pierson Point...Lucy's father wants his girlfriend to become a bigger part of Lucy's life. Though Lucy struggles against change, she gradually realizes that sometimes, change is for the better. Average wear to jacket; bumped corners and head and heel of spine, owner's name on fep. Autographed Copy sticker on front of jacket; one previously folded page corner. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits… Read More
Item Price
£8.93
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Verne, Jules

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£16.23£11.36
Save £6.00!

Show Details

Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. Red cloth with pictorial paste down on the cover. The pastedown is clean and bright. 427p. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and 3 black and white plates. Hinges starting to crack, ends lightly worn. General tone with lightly soiled endpages. The dust jacket is missing a large portion from spine and back panel. The front panel is heavily creased. A clear, removable, protective cover has a computer generated title adhered to it. From the "Series for Young People" first published with this cover in 1918.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Item Price
£16.23£11.36
Save £6.00 !
The Republic Of Plato
More Photos

The Republic Of Plato: A New Version Founded On Basic English

by Richards, I.A

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£10.54

Show Details

Description:
1942 - noted on the copyright page as "A WARTIME BOOK This complete edition is produced in full compliance with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essential materials" book: very good -tight, sound, and square, no previous owner marks - moderate edgewear plus rubbing to the boards - some toning from age - no dj - includes a vintage (pre - "The Google") Buccaneer Books Laguna Beach, CA out-of-print book search card
Item Price
£10.54
A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint
More Photos

A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint

by Elizabeth Harrison

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
4th
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Garland, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
£9.74

Show Details

Description:
A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint by Elizabeth Harrison. Published by Chicago Kindergarten College; 4th edition (1892). 207 pages. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and date of Aug 1893 on fly page. Another fly page has "Compliments Chicago Kindergarten College Co." in handwriting. Edge of several pages have slight bend and small tear. Hardback with no dj if offered. Slight bumping on edges and spine. Blue cloth cover and spine has some fading. Condition: Good. Measures 7.5" x 5"
Item Price
£9.74