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hardesty's encyclopedia atlas virginia

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Title: Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Illustrated. Containing Large Scale Copper Plate Maps of each State and Territory of the United States and the Provinces of Canada . . . Special History of the Virginias. Maps and Histories of Roane, Calhoun, Jackson and Wirt Counties, West Virginia, (etc.)
Author: [Hardesty, H. H.]
Description: 329, (267)-348, 34 pp. Illustrated with 42 colored maps in first section (all but 11 are double-page), many engraved illustrations, 4 additional maps in second ("Special State and County Department") section. (Folio) 38x29 cm (15x11¼"), remnants of original ½ calf and brown cloth, front cover stamped in gilt.Maps include all the states and territories of the United States (4 separate double-page maps of Texas, 3 of California) as well as Cuba, Mexico, "British America" (i.e. Canada) and other places. Inserted 34-page section at rear is headed "Personal History Department of Jackson County" and also includes Wirt and Calhoun Counties.
Heading: zzf(Atlas)Place Published: New York
Publisher: H. H. Hardesty & Co.
Date Published: 1884