Excerpt from Bibliotheca Geographica and Historica: Or a Catalogue of a Nine Days Sale of Rare and Valuable Ancient and Modern Books Maps, Charts, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters Et Cetera, Illustrative of Historical Geography and Geographical History, General and Local Annals HE question OF cataloguing our books 1s BE coming a very serious one. For more than four hundred years the press has teemed, and of late steamed, with books. The dead past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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