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William Smith; William Henry Francis Plate; W Hughes; Philip Smith; G Long; W B Clarke; Colonel Leake; C R Cockerell; J & C Walker; T Hewett Key; G Long; James Mickleburgh The University Atlas of Classical and Modern Geography including all the Recent Geographical Discoveries with Indeces
Edward Stanford, London; the society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1857 No ISBN 1st Edition Hardcover Good No Dust Jacket
Hand-coloured folding double-page maps in two sections, each section followed by index. Classical Maps are numbered 1-26 and are: 1. The World as Known to the Ancients Sheet I; 2. The World as Known to the Ancients Sheet II; 3. Ancient Britain I; 4. Ancient France or Gallia Transalpina; 5. Ancient Italy I; 6. Ancient Italy II; 7. Ancient Italy Part III and Sicily; 8. Ancient Spain & Portugal, Hispania or Iberia; 9. Germania Magna, Rhaetia, Noricum and Pannonia; 10. Ancient Macedonia, Thracia, Illyria, Moesia and Dacia; 11. Ancient Greece, Northern Part; 12. Ancient Greece, Southern Part; 13. Grecian Archipelago (Ancient) by William Smith; 14. Asia Minor Antiqua by William Henry Francis Plate; 15. Ancient Syria by W Hughes and Part of Arabia including Mount Sinai; 16. Palestine in the Time of Our Saviour by W Hughes; 17. Oriens (Persian Gulf - northern side); 18. Ancient Africa or Libya Part I by Philip Smith; 19. Ancient Africa or Libya Part II by Phiip Smith; 20. Ancient Egypt by G Long; 21. Plan of Ancient Rome by W B Clarke with scaled elevations of buildings along the bottom margin; 22. Athens under the authorities of Colonel Leake and C R Cockerell with vignettes in broad margins from drawings by W B Clarke, and panorama drawings by C R Cockerell; 23. Syracuse with the Remaing Vestiges of its Five Cities with a vignette of a View of Syracuse from the Theatre at the lower edge. Modern Maps are numbered 24-52 and are: 24. Western Hemisphere, engraved by J & C Walker; 25. Eastern Hemisphere, engraved by J & C Walker; 26. Europe; 27. England and Wales; 28. Scotland; 29. Ireland; 30 The Netherlands, de Nederlanden, and Belgium, La Belgique; 31. France in Departments; 32. France in Provinces by T Hewett Key; 33. Switzerland, Schweiz, La Suisse with section with exaggerated vertical scale showing Heights of the Principal Mountains and Passes; 34. Italy, General Map including Scily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica etc; 35. Spain and Portugal by Philip Smith; 36. Germany, General Map; 37. Sweden, Norway and Denmark including the Baltic Sea & Russian provinces Adjacent; 38. Russia in Europe, General Map; 39. The Turkish Empire in Europe and Asia with the Kingdom of Greece; 40. Greece; 41 Asia; 42; Asia Minor by William Henry F Plate; 43. India - this map is heaviily freckled with a brief marginal note; 44. China, the Interior chiefly from Du Halde and the Jesuits 1710-1718, and the Sea Coast from Modern Authorities; 45. Africa; 46. Egypt by G Long; 47; North America; 48. North America - Canada and the United States, includes profiles for Welland Canal, Rideau Canal, Erie Canal, Pennsylvania Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; 49. The Antilles or West-India Islands; 50, South America; 51. Australia - small ink blot on this map; 52. the Islands of New Zealand - Settlements coloured red. Index to the Principal Places in the World (Modern) with Reference to the maps by the Rev James Mickleburgh, Vicar of Ashill, Somerset. Half-leather binding with brown boards, worn corners, rubbed spine ends. Covers and spine are well-attached to each other. Inner is disbound, each double sheet map is separate from each other, indeces are partially split. Maps are a little darkened and each is lightly freckled (see India) and there are occsional nicks or very short splits at the edges of maps and a few corners are a little ragged. There are no major splits or tears to the maps (or indeces) and no other areas of loss or damage. This is a heavy volume and may incur additional delivery charges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Inventory No: 3034-6800. Hardcover
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