The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography constructed from the most recent and authentic sources. by JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith - 1855

Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston. 1855. With a copious index carefully compiled from the maps. Large folio: 55x37cm (h/w). [vi]pp, 41 double-page centre-mounted engraved maps with outline colour and many inset; 12pp index (last blank). Publisher's half-leather and cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper board and spine; corners and extremities rubbed. All edges gilt. The text pages, and preliminary blank leaves front and rear, have some light spotting and the endpapers have a damp mark at the lower fore-corner, which does not extend to the text pages or maps. The maps are clean and without any tears. *** The maps are of the world (2), Europe (16), the British Isles (3), Asia (7), Australasia & the Pacific (5 including one of Van Diemen's Land), the Americas (5 including one of 'the US and Texas'), and Africa (3). .