Iceland -- Greenland -- The Faroer or Feroe Islands.
Three maps of Iceland, Greenland and the Feroe Islands. Maps show political boundaries, cities, railroads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Relief shown with hachures. Maps include latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a bar scale given in miles (scales differ)...
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Geo. F. Cram
1899
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| Summary: | Three maps of Iceland, Greenland and the Feroe Islands. Maps show political boundaries, cities, railroads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Relief shown with hachures. Maps include latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a bar scale given in miles (scales differ). Colored lithograph. Together, maps are 40 x 32 cm, on sheet 45 x 33 cm. Cram's standard American railway system atlas of the world, by George F. Cram; published in New York and Chicago, 1899. Bound in dark teal-colored board, which has been reinforced with duct tape. Front cover includes title, advertisement and "Index to United States, Canada and Mexico maps". With green floral end papers. Collation: 2° : [1-4], 5-510, 515-608, [1-42] pages. Atlas comprised of 231 maps, with geographic coverage of the United States as a whole and each of its fifty states, as well as Canada, Central America, South America, the West Indies, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Also, with several city maps, including San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas and Denver. Maps show political boundaries, counties, towns, Indian reservations, mines, railroads, roads, steamship lines, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, islands and water routes with distances. Some maps provide figures for square mileage and population. Volume includes title page, table of contents, and index pages associated with state maps, as well as 42 (unnumbered) pages with “Special list of attorneys in every banking town in the United States” and “Bank directory containing one or more principal banks and bankers in each city and town in the United States, who make a specialty of collections and general banking business”. According to the title, “Maps of the United States are the largest scale and clearest print of any maps published. Foreign maps are compiled largely from charts of the Royal Geographical Society and are geographically correct.” For the 1901 edition of the atlas, see ... |
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