Each card depicts scenes of the theater at various times throughout history
Postcards all measure c
(Cosmographia Universalis)
but here with a curious pictorial twist which emphasizes scientific latitude and longitude locations in regular comparison columns as well as the locations political features
Of note as well for the uncommon issuance source
Familiar Studies of Men & Books 1920 Robert Louis Stevenson lovely leather book Balkans Each card depicts scenes of(Old Books, Early 20th Century Books, Leather Book Bindings, Fiction & Literature, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Black Arrow). "Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers; Memories and Portraits; Familiar Studies of Men and Books, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published 1920, New York by Charles Scribner's Sons. 629 pages. Text in English. Engraved frontispiece. Period 1 2 leather binding, raised & gilt bands, gilt ruled compartments, gilt title