Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...With a Treatise on Physical Geography, by A. Guyot ..with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...Also Including a Dictionary of Religious Denominations, Sects, Parties, and Associations, Compiled by Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock Author: Johnson, A[lvin] J. Place: New York Publisher: A. J. Johnson Date: 1873 Description: 88, 121, 29, [3] pp. With 62 hand-colored maps (46 are double-page) plus insets; 8 hand-colored plates showing world time differences, flags of the world (double-page), 5 charts showing the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers of the world (double-page), 9 physical maps (on 7 pages, most are double-page), and the East and West Hemispheres (double-page); steel-engraved frontispiece of the U.S. Capitol building; plus several wood engravings within the text. (Folio) 18x14½, original half dark green morocco and dark green cloth, decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt. The complete and comprehensive Johnson’s atlas of the United States and the world, with 39 maps focusing on the Americas including 31 of those pertaining to the United States. Double-page maps include: United States and several individual U.S. states; the World; North America; portions of Canada; Boston; New York City and Brooklyn; Philadelphia; Richmond and Peninsular Campaign; Texas; West Indies; South America; Europe; England and Wales; France, Spain and Portugal; Empire of Germany; Italy; Austria, Turkey in Europe and Greece; Russia; Asia; Hindoostan (India) and Farther India (Southeast Asia); China and Japan; Africa; Australia and East Indies; and the Roman Empire. Lot Amendments Condition: Edge wear and rubbing to exterior; corners chipped and worn to first few front and last leaves; Massachusetts map with edge wear and nearly split through at centerfold, other maps with short splitting along centerfolds; scattered marginal tears, occasional stains and other minor wear; overall a very good copy. Item number: 145316
Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...With a Treatise on Physical Geography, by A. Guyot ..with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...Also Including a Dictionary of Religious Denominations, Sects, Parties, and Associations, Compiled by Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock Author: Johnson, A[lvin] J. Place: New York Publisher: A. J. Johnson Date: 1873 Description: 88, 121, 29, [3] pp. With 62 hand-colored maps (46 are double-page) plus insets; 8 hand-colored plates showing world time differences, flags of the world (double-page), 5 charts showing the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers of the world (double-page), 9 physical maps (on 7 pages, most are double-page), and the East and West Hemispheres (double-page); steel-engraved frontispiece of the U.S. Capitol building; plus several wood engravings within the text. (Folio) 18x14½, original half dark green morocco and dark green cloth, decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt. The complete and comprehensive Johnson’s atlas of the United States and the world, with 39 maps focusing on the Americas including 31 of those pertaining to the United States. Double-page maps include: United States and several individual U.S. states; the World; North America; portions of Canada; Boston; New York City and Brooklyn; Philadelphia; Richmond and Peninsular Campaign; Texas; West Indies; South America; Europe; England and Wales; France, Spain and Portugal; Empire of Germany; Italy; Austria, Turkey in Europe and Greece; Russia; Asia; Hindoostan (India) and Farther India (Southeast Asia); China and Japan; Africa; Australia and East Indies; and the Roman Empire. Lot Amendments Condition: Edge wear and rubbing to exterior; corners chipped and worn to first few front and last leaves; Massachusetts map with edge wear and nearly split through at centerfold, other maps with short splitting along centerfolds; scattered marginal tears, occasional stains and other minor wear; overall a very good copy. Item number: 145316
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