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Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas 1874

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Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...With a Treatise on Physical Geography, by A. Guyot...with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...Also Including a Dictionary of Religious Denominations, Sects, Parties, and Associations, Compiled by Professor Roswell D. Hitchcock, D. D.
Author: Johnson, A[lvin] J.
Description: 88, 121, 29, [3] pp. (Map sheet pagination skips pages 14 and 15, however 14 and 15 are not found on map list) With 55 hand-colored maps (52 are double-page) including two non-paginated double-page maps not present on map list; 2 hand-colored plates showing world time differences, flags of the world, 5 charts showing the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers of the world (double-page), 9 physical maps (on 7 pages, most are double-page), and the East and West Hemispheres (double-page); steel-engraved frontispiece of the U.S. Capitol building; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (Folio) 18x14, original half dark green morocco and cloth, decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt.Johnson's atlas includes maps of several individual U.S. states; North America; various portions of Canada; West Indies; South America; Europe; England and Wales; Russia; Asia; Hindoostan (India) and Farther India (Southeast Asia); China and Japan; Africa; Australia and East Indies; and the Roman Empire. Phillips, Atlases 858.
Heading: zzgPlace Published: New York
Publisher: A. J. Johnson
Date Published: 1874