A Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Atlas, on a new and impr

BLAKE (John Lauris).

A Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Atlas, on a new and improved plan; or, a view of the present state of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the known World. ... illustrated by charts and engravings.

Second Edition; quarto (239 x 161 mm); ix, [1], full-page ‘Rail Road’ plate, [10] - 196pp., double-page plate with four wood engraving of religious ceremonies (after page 150), folding engraved double-hemisphere world map, with letterpress chronology of modern navigators printed below, seventeen double-page geographical tables, chronological time charts, etc., composed solely of text, some in wash colour. Contemporary half black roan over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine; boards and extremities rubbed, some loss of roan at corners and head of spine. New-York : [Edward Pratt] Cooke and Co., 1826.

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BLAKE (John Lauris).

A Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Atlas, on a new and improved plan; or, a view of the present state of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the known World. ... illustrated by charts and engravings.

Unusual school “atlas”, conceived along the lines of Charles Valentin Lavoisne’s Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas (Philadelphia, 1820). The ‘Rail Road’ plate depicts a George Stevenson steam train (in the foreground), with a depiction, in profile, of the line from the Hetton Collieries to Sunderland, used for hauling coal to the docks for trans-shipment; this is an early depiction of a steam-train, predating Stevenson’s opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the first passenger railway in the world, by four years.

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A Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Atlas, on a new and improved plan; or, a view of the present state of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the known World. ... illustrated by charts and engravings.

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