Author: EDWARD QUIN
Title: An Historical Atlas: In a Series of Maps of the World as Known in Different Periods, Constructed upon an Uniform Scale, and Coloured According to the Political Changes of Each Period. A New edition With the Maps on a Greatly Enlarged Scale, the Whole Drawn and Engraved by W, Hughes.
Description: Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1846. Large folio. Hand coloured engraved title, 14 hand coloured engraved maps on 7 sheets, 6 hand coloured double page hemisphere maps> all mounted on linen. Contemporary half sheep, a little worn on the corners. One of the most unusual and attractive atlases of the nineteenth century> rather than bound as a quarto, here it is bound as an elephant folio with the first series of maps as single pages with 2 maps to the sheet, and the hemispheres bound on opposite pages to show the whole world in one glance.

Keywords: Maps


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