NON-EXPORTABLE
A SERIES OF FIFTY-FIVE MAPS
TITLE: Black's General Atlas of the world
SUB TITLE: New and Revised Edition, Embracing the latest Discoveries, new Boundaries and other Changes accompanied by introductory Letterpress and Index.
AUTHOR: John Bartholomew
PUBLISHER: Adam and Charles Black
PLACE: Edinburgh
YEAR: 1888
BINDING: Hardbound, quarter calf with leather tips over green cloth with gilt title on front cover. All edges gilt .
NO.OF PAGES: Illustrated with 55 Full or Double Page Hand-Colored Engraved Maps, none printed back-to-back, with descriptive text of 32 pages at front of Volume and Extensive Index at Rear of 70 pages.
SIZE:
Height: 46.5 cm
Width: 36cm
Depth: 3.5 cm
Black (Adam & Charles). Black's General Atlas of the World, published Edinburgh, 1888, colour lithographic frontispiece of 'The Flags of all Nations', fifty-five (complete as list) colour printed maps, index bound at rear, map of Persia
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