JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith.

The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography.

Stock Code

108186

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1861

£750

A handsome example of Johnston's Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, containing 48 stunning double-page and partly hand-coloured maps, each with a special index. The North America map shows Colorado as a Territory - very up to date for a British Atlas (most do not show Colorado until 1862). This is one of the best, most detailed and most prominent British atlases from the second half of the nineteenth century.

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First edition; folio (50.7 x 34.6 cm); 48 double-page maps, hand-coloured in outline, watercourses printed in blue, advertisements tipped in at rear, slight marginal toning, light foxing to prelims and light spash-stains to four maps, otherwise good; contemporary burgundy half morocco gilt, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, all edges gilt, teal endpapers, overall a very good example.