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Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, Including the Latest Federal Census, and the Existing Religious Denominations in the World Author: Johnson, A[lvin] J. Place: New York Publisher: A.J. Johnson Date: 1867 Description: [4], 134, [3] pp. + 109 map leaves. With 58 hand-colored maps (38 are double-page) including insets; 2 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), 6 physical maps (on 2 pages), 6 hand-colored globe illustrations, and the East and West Hemispheres (full-page); plus an engraved frontispiece from a photograph of the U.S. Capitol building. Text by Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. (Folio) 18x14½, original quarter morocco and brown 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. Thirty-five maps of the Americas, 27 pertain to the United States (many are the double-page maps) including Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virgina. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild wear to exterior; binding only slightly shaken; map images clean and bright, scattered faint marginal dampstains, occasional edge tears and finger-soiling; very good or better. Item number: 144903