Historical and Biographical Atlas, or Charts of Sacred and Profane History and Biography. For the Use of Schools and Students in History. From the Creation of the World to the Birth of Christ.

London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1828 Ex-Library. Hard cover, Folio (10 ½" x 14 ¾") in three-quarter red leather gilt with marbled paper covered boards, the title in gilt upon red leather label centered to top board, First Edition. Collation: [2] 3, [1] [10] leaves, complete. Condition: Fair. Ex-Library, with engraved donation sticker, shelving notation to front pastedown, several perforated blind library stamps. Spine is repaired externally with green library binding. Internally, spine is cracked but pages are holding. Wear to covers, loss to corners. Minor foxing throughout. Features decorative engraved title page, and other charts which are engraved by Mattw. Barriff, London. *** Contains 10 timeline charts, showing religious events ("2349 BC - Noah commanded to enter the Ark", "2247 BC - Tower of Babel built on the plain of Syria", 1921 BC - "Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed"), lifespans of Mathematicians Physicists and Artists (Pythagorus, Sophocles, Sappho, Thales) and wars (Peloponnesian War, Rome Burnt by the Gauls). ** The Author, Englishman JOHN BRUCE (1805-1892), founded the well-considered Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Percy Street Academy (also known as Bruce's Academy), located in the family home from 1806 to 1881. It was conceived as a merchant school for educating the local youth for futures in trade and business. Bruce was a largely self-educated man from humble roots, making his achievements in the educational field all the more admirable. His other title was an Introduction to Geography and Astronomy, which went to multiple editions. The school was later led by his son Rev. Dr. John Collingwood Bruce. (See Sir Gainsford Bruce's biography of his father the Rev. John Collingwood Bruce, (W. Blackwood, Edinburgh,1905) for more details on the paterfamilias.) **The Engraver, MATTHEW BARRIFF of London, is mentioned in contemporary legal periodicals as having fallen out of partnership with at least two individuals in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The London Gazette of 20th Dec., 1819 ,Vol. 2, tells us of a dissolved partnership with fellow engraver William Barrett "by mutual consent," at their premises at No. 67 Dean Street, So-ho Square. Page [2135]. Later, in 1825, he again dissolved a business partnership with Philip Jones, noted in The Law Advertiser, Vol. 3, No. 27, for Tuesday July 7, 1825. By the time of the publication of this Atlas, in 1828, he had relocated to Theobald's Road, London.**Library donor, the Rev. WILLIAM OXNARD MOSELEY (1843-1847), of Newburyport Massachusetts, home of this bookseller, was once pastor of Norwood First Parish Church. His family's estate Maudslay, was once a destination for a number of nineteenth-century Boston-area literary figures, and currently a public park upon the picturesque, rhododendron-laden shores of the Merrimack River. ( His son, William Jr. was, apparently, the first American mountaineer to die upon the Matterhorn in a tragic accident in 1879, according to the American Alpine Club.) OCLC 222784418. World cat shows only five copies of this volume internationally. Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Engraver Matthew Barriff, Theobalds Road, London.