[GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne, by STEIN, Christian Gottfried Daniel (1771-1830)

af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af år 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with bands ruled in triple gilt and maroon leather title-piece lettered in gilt; speckled edges; front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Seton of Ekolsund (the Seton family originally came from Linlithgowshire in Scotland), front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of Alexander Seton dated 22 March 1823; pp. [10], 458; [BOUND WITH] Register till G.D. Stein's Lärobok (an index of place names) .... Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1820. pp. 90, [4]; both works crisp and clean throughout, a very attractively bound volume associated with an interesting dynasty, the Setons of Eskolund. A Swedish translation of Stein's Handbuch der Geographie und Statistik nach den neuesten Ansichten für die gebildeten Stände, Gymnasien und Schulen (Leipzig, 1819) which includes the separately issued index of place names. The final section (pp 445-457) is devoted to Australia and Oceania, and includes entries on New Holland, New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, New Britain, New Georgia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Friendly Islands, Hervey (Cook) Islands, Society Islands, Marquesas, Sandwich Islands and Easter Island. Trove locates only the SLNSW copy.