Author: FREEMAN, EDWARD A. ( EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN, 1823-1892 ) .
Title: The Historical Geography of Europe By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L., LL.D. Honary Fellow Of Trinity College, Oxford. In Two Volumes. Second Edition. Vol. I. - Text ; Vol. II. - Maps .
Description: London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1882 . 0. A very good two volume set in matching full leather bindings. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" . Vol. I. : pp.xlviii./pp.629 ; Vol. II. : pp.viii + LXV Maps. Polished red calf with gilt fillet border. Gilt crest to each front board : "Halleybury College" . Matching spines with gilt decoration and black leather title labels. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. Blank prize label (Halleybury College) to verso of front oard of Vol. I. Previous owner's names to front free-endpaper of each volume. Clean text throughout. Vol. II. with 65 maps with coloured outlines. VG. ** "Edward Augustus Freeman (2 August 1823 – 16 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister William Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans were activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1874–1878) against the Ottoman Empire." - See Wikipedia.

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