Published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Edinburgh. 1896. pages xi, 691, index; 7 maps, 4 illusts., 1 diagram; hardcover bound by the society of 12 monthly issues for 1896 with embossed gilt seal on cover and gilt titles on spine (spine fabric worn at top and bottom, endpapers foxed, corners bumped); o/wise very good condition. . Important journal of natural history and geography, a wide variety of topics including, Tarhuna and Gharian, in Tripoli, and their ancient sites, the towns of northern Mongolia, the story of the North-East Passage, the industrial and commercial development of Japan, Venezuela, the Falkland Islands, the history of globes, the territorial growth of states, the island of Formosa its past and future, notes on the Yukon country.