Scandinavia :Including Sweden, Norway & Denmark. Published by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh. (to accompany) Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas . 1841. (inset) Iceland.
Double page engraved hand colored in outline map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows political and administrative boundaries, cities, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Prime meridian is London. A later edition of the 1826 atlas, published by William H. Lizars, a Scottish painter and engraver. Date i...
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| Summary: | Double page engraved hand colored in outline map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows political and administrative boundaries, cities, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Prime meridian is London. A later edition of the 1826 atlas, published by William H. Lizars, a Scottish painter and engraver. Date is on the spine only. Atlas contains 69 double-page engraved hand colored in outline map sheets, contents ”Index to the maps”, numbered 1-70, as listed but no. 32 omitted, no. 70 is double-page engraved “Table of mountain chains”, and 16 pages of index to the name of places and maps" at the end. Maps show political and administrative boundaries, cities, villages, rivers, lakes and mountains. This volume includes two maps, one of the United States and one of Mexico, both showing the Republic of Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Some maps includes notes. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Covers are half leather dark green cloth covered boards with "Lizars' General Atlas. 1841" stamped in gilt on the spine. Philips Atlases 782. |
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