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With 74 hand-colored maps and plans (26 are double-page), plus insets; 1 double-page railroad map of the United States; all on 52 map-sheets; plus 3 other color plates showing the time table, East and West Hemisphere with mountain and river statistics. 15¼x12½, publisher’s quarter black sheep and cloth, lettered in gilt, page edges stained red.

Double-page hand-colored maps include: The World; United States; and various individual states; Boston; New York (with 5 insets); New York and Brooklyn; Philadelphia and Camden; Texas; California; Mexico, Central America and the West Indies; Africa, etc. 57 of the maps pertain to the Americas, mostly that of the United States. Plans of Baltimore, Washington DC, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit. List of the U.S. and Canadian post offices, U.S. populations, mountains and rivers, all in the back.