New general geography of France including the physical, political, historical, agricultural, industrial and commercial geography according to the most recent documents by
Maurice Wahl (1853-1900)
Teacher. - Agrégation in history and geography (1876). - Doctor of Letters (1894). - Teacher at the Lycée d'Alger (1876), then at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris (1890). - Inspector General of Public Instruction for the teaching of letters in the colonies (appointed in 1893)
Monumental monograph on 19th century France (except Alsace then German)
Very nice edition, perfectly regulated and bound by Guy Lorieul Relieur Doreur auxerrois (2nd half of the 20th century) Quoted by Yves Devaux in his acknowledgments (Ten centuries of Binding)
Editions Garnier Brothers
n.d. (circa 1897)
Format 20*28.5 cm, 1156+384p (2 parts)
Embellished with numerous B&W engravings
(Types, Town Plans, Portraits, Landscapes, Colored Departmental Maps, Monuments)
First cover illustrated by Fernand Auguste Besnier
