Descriptive Hand Atlas of the World.

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Title: Descriptive Hand Atlas of the World.

Publication Date: ?1873

Primary Author: John Bartholomew, F.R.G.S.

Publisher: T. ELLWOOD ZELL

Where Published: Philadelphia

Description: WITH ORIGINAL CANVAS DUST COVER. First bound edition. Thirty-two of the maps are large double-page sheets. Frontispiece, title page with engraved allegorical figures representing the continents, preface, index, introduction, atlas text, charts and maps, general index, approximately 300 pp. There is an engraving representing the continents with a color plate the "Flags of All Nations." Zell's Atlases were first issued in parts, and then published together as a complete volume beginning in 1873. Zell, a Quaker, was a publisher of Friend's religious works as well as atlases. He died in 1905. Excellent restored copy with original canvas dust cover (not found on most copies) in a gray linen box case with leather lettering piece.

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