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101, 121, 29, [3] pp. With 62 hand-colored maps (47 are double-page) including insets; 13 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), 9 physical maps (on 7 pages), and the East and West Hemispheres; plus a frontispiece from a steel-engraving of the U.S. Capitol building. With a Treatise on Physical Geography by Professor A. Guyot. (Folio) 18x14½, original half black morocco and green cloth decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced, all edges gilt.

The complete and comprehensive Johnson’s atlas of the United States and the world, with 39 maps focusing on the Americas including 32 of those pertaining to the United States. Double-page maps include: United States and several individual U.S. states; the World; North America; Boston; New York City and Brooklyn; Richmond and Peninsular Campaign; West Indies; South America; Europe; England and Wales; France, Spain and Portugal; Empire of 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. Includes the publisher's prospectus broadside printed on both sides, laid in.