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Author: Johnston, Alexander Keith
Title: The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, Exhibiting, in a Series of Entirely Original and Authentic Maps, the Present Condition of Geographical Discovery and Research in the Several Countries, Empires, and States of the World
Place Published: Edinburgh & London
Publisher:William Blackwood and Sons
Date Published: 1861
Description:

48 steel-engraved map-sheets (most are double-page), printed in blue and black and hand-colored in outline. Plus index leaves for each map. (Folio) 19¼x12¾, oroginal three-quarter calf and green boards, raised bands, gilt ruled,  gilt lettering to cover and spine. First Edition.

Complete with all handsome, and detailed maps. Eleven of the maps relate to the United States and the Americas. "Several maps have insets showing plans of cities and environs" - Phillips Atlases 835.

Wear to spine and cover, small hole to front panel, foxing throughout, tape repair to front and back hinges; good or better.