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Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...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 & Co. Date: 1884 Description: 101, 121, 35 + [2] ad pp. With 64 hand-colored maps (46 are double-page) plus insets; 12 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 (on two pages), 9 physical maps (on 7 pages), and the East and West Hemispheres; frontispiece from an engraving of the U.S. Capitol building; plus numerous wood engravings. With a Treatise on Physical Geography by Professor A. Guyot (Folio) 18x14½, original quarter black morocco and brown cloth decoratively blind-stamped, rebacked with later black cloth and photocopied paper spine label, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt. The complete and comprehensive Johnson’s atlas of the United States and the world, with 41 maps focusing on the Americas including 33 of those pertaining to the United States. Double-page maps include: The World; North America; United States and several individual U.S. states and provinces of Canada; Boston; New York City and Brooklyn; Philadelphia; Texas; Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virgina. Double-page maps from the rest of the world, including West Indies; South America; various European countries; Russia; Asia; Hindoostan (India) and Farther India (Southeast Asia); China and Japan; Africa; Australia and East Indies; and the Roman Empire. Phillips 718. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing, edge wear; slight marginal darkening, occasional faint foxing and finger-soiling; contents near fine; binding still very good. Item number: 144320