With 79 hand-colored maps and plans plus several insets (23 are double-page, 1 of which is folding); all on 51 map-sheets; plus 3 other color plates showing the time table, East and West Hemisphere. 15¼x12½, original quarter calf and tan-orange cloth, stamped in black and gilt.
Double-page maps include: The World; United States and various U.S. states, including: New York (with 5 insets), Pennsylvania, Texas (with large inset of Galveston), California (with 2 insets), Utah and Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, etc.; New York City and Brooklyn; Boston; Philadelphia and Camden; Chicago; Mexico, Central America and West Indies (with 4 insets); Turkey in Europe; and Africa (folding). Fifty-six of the maps pertain to the Americas, including full-page maps of the original 13 colonies; and other individual states, also, Alaska, Cuba, various South American countries, etc. Plans of: Baltimore, Washington DC, New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Detroit. List of the U.S. and Canadian post offices, U.S. populations, mountains and rivers, all in the back.
Condition:
Rubbing, edge wear, corners a bit worn, foot of spine peeling; front hinge cracked, left half of New York state map loosely laid in, occasional splits and finger-soiling, faint offsetting; most maps very good or better.