Synchronised by Hon. Sebastian C. Adams, with Maps of the World's Great Empires drawn by Prof. J.A. Paine, 5th edition of this monumental educational diagram, updated to 1883, with 13 inset maps at the left end, and portrait ovals of all the presidents of the United States, and the principal reigning sovereigns of the world, at the right end, chromolithograph, 695 x 6850mm., varnished, divided into folding sections and linen-backed, all as issued, folding into marbled endpapers and contemporary red half-morocco over blue cloth, worn, spine defective, gilt lettered ­ams' Illustrated Panorama of History, A.H. Walker Publisher London & Paris' on upper cover, tall folio, New York, Colby & Co., 1883 .