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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 Author: Johnson, A[lvin] J. Place: New York Publisher: A. J. Johnson Date: 1870 Description: With 61 hand-colored maps (46 are double-page including East and West Hemispheres), plus insets; 3 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 (double-page); 9 hand-colored physical maps (on 7 pages, most are full-page); wood-engraved Coats of Arms (double-page); steel-engraved frontispiece of the U.S. Capitol building; plus several wood engravings and diagrams within the text (some are hand-colored). (Folio) 18x14½, original quarter dark green morocco and green cloth, spine and corners re-covered with black cloth tape, decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The complete and comprehensive Johnson’s atlas of the United States and the world, with 37 maps focusing on the Americas, including 29 of those pertaining to the United States. Double-page maps include: The World; United States and several individual U.S. states; North America; various portions of Canada; Boston; New York (state); New York City with Brooklyn; Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia; Texas (with 2 insets); West Indies; South America; Europe; England and Wales; France, Spain and Portugal; Prussia and Germany; Italy; Austria, Turkey in Europe and Greece; Russia; Asia; Hindoostan (India) and Farther India (Southeast Asia); China and Japan; Africa; Australia and East Indies; and the Roman Empire. Phillips 858. Lot Amendments Condition: Lacks most of leather spine, edge wear, rubbing; hinges heavily cracked, a few short edge tears and chips, some of the map centerfolds splitting (mostly to Texas and Europe), scattered dampstains (chiefly to margins), previous owner’s signature dated 1870; internally very good with bright coloring; binding needs repair. Item number: 163467