Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World

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Author: Johnson, Alvin J.
Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, Including the Latest Federal Census, and the Existing Religious Denominations in the World
Place Published: New York
Publisher:A.J. Johnson
Date Published: 1867
Description:

[4], 134, [3] pp. + 103 (of 105) numbered map leaves. With hand-colored maps (many are double-page) including insets; 2 hand-colored plates showing world time differences, flags of the world (double-page), 5 charts showing the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers of the world (on two pages), 6 physical maps (on 2 pages), 6 hand-colored globe illustrations, and the East and West Hemispheres (full-page); plus an engraved frontispiece from a photograph of the U.S. Capitol building. Text by Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. (Folio) 46x34 cm (18x14½"), original half morocco and brown cloth decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

Johnson's atlas of the United States and the world. Thirty-five maps of the Americas, 27 pertain to the United States (many are the double-page maps) including Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. Lacking the double-page map of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware; also lacking final map of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Condition Report: Chip at heel of spine, rubbing and wear to leather, cloth torn on rear cover; front hinge starting, leaves mildly toned, some margin tears, some stains; about very good.