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Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...With Physical Geography, and with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical and Historical, Including the Latest Federal Census, and the Existing Religious Denominations in the World Author: Johnson, A[lvin] J. Place: New York Publisher: A. J. Johnson Date: 1868 Description: With 61 hand-colored maps (42 are double-page), East and West Hemispheres, plus insets; 2 hand-colored plates, including: 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); 12 physical maps (on 4 pages); steel-engraved frontispiece of the U.S. Capitol building; plus several wood engravings within the text and 2 full-page Coats of Arms leaves. (Folio) 18x14½, original quarter brown morocco and cloth, decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. The comprehensive Johnson’s atlas of the United States and the world, mostly focusing on the Americas. Double-page maps include: United States and several individual U.S. states; the World; North America; portions of Canada; New York City and Brooklyn; Richmond and Peninsular Campaign; Texas; California and the Southwest; West Indies; South America; European countries; Russia; Asia; India and Southeast Asia; Africa; Australia and East Indies; Roman Empire, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing and faint stains to exterior, wear to edges and spine (tears and chips to ends); binding a bit shaken, a few maps laid in loose, some leaves with tape repairs (at centerfolds), other mild age wear; maps clean and very good, binding just good. Item number: 144444