(Book Cover to) The Mid Century Edition of the Times Atlas of the World, Edited by John Bartholomew, M.C. Volume IV, South Europe & Africa.
Paper dust jacket. Volume IV, the second to appear in the series of five volumes which will comprise the Mid-Century Edition of the Times Atlas., each covering a section of the world, each indexed individually . Volume III is the first to publish, covers Northern Europe; in 1956, will follow Volume...
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Houghton Mifflin Co.
1956
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| Summary: | Paper dust jacket. Volume IV, the second to appear in the series of five volumes which will comprise the Mid-Century Edition of the Times Atlas., each covering a section of the world, each indexed individually . Volume III is the first to publish, covers Northern Europe; in 1956, will follow Volume IV, Southern Europe and Africa; in 1957, Volume V, the Americas; in 1958 Volume I, World, Australia, East Asia; 1959, Volume II, India, Middle East, Russia. There are 120 plates, and two frontispieces, uniformly bound, mounted on a red linen cover, lettered in real gold on front and spine. Published in 5 volumes, 1955-1959, with 122 colored double page map sheets, and a comprehensive index of over 200,000 names. Because of the long production times involved in the work of compiling the detailed maps. The volumes were arranged in continental groupings with volume III, North Europe, coming out first, followed by another volume each year. V.1. The World, Australasia & East Asia --V.2. South-West Asia & Russia --V.3. Northern Europe --V.4. Southern Europe & Africa --V.5. The Americas. with an Index-Gazetteer. Bound in red linen, with label stamped in real gold reading "The Times Atlas of the World, Mid-Century Edition." |
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