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Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1877. viii (plus a frontis double page map of the North Pole, and a contents leaf) followed by the other splendid 48 double-page maps, interleaved with blank spreads, wherein are set frequent index pages relating to the preceding few maps. The North Pole map has a small erratum quadrant tipped onto it amending the coastlines around the top of Greenland, and a small erratum rectangle serves the same purpose on map 41. Large folio (20 x 13ins / c.50.5 x 33.5cms), in the original binding of half black morocco gilt with 6 raised bands, bright and firm, the boards in pink fine pebble cloth with royal arms and ornate lettering in gilt, stained and faded. The first (1861) edition was described at the time by the Times as 'the best Atlas which has ever been published in this country', and, referring to the intervening period and the new information which he was striving to encompass in the present edition, Johnston says in the preface that 'during no previous equally short space of time have so many important discoveries and explorations been made'.

Price: £420.00

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. viii, 156pp, 4 (adverts). With a folding map in black and red, and a tissue-guarded frontis and 10 other illustrations. Prelims partially unopened. 1854 ownership name on title page. Soiling at p.iv and p.1, occasional very minor foxing, contents otherwise generally clean. In the original green grained cloth, decorated in blind and spine lettered in gilt: clean and firm, with minor knocks to extremities, but marred by a two-inch scar towards the bottom of the spine, where part of the cloth has been damaged and repaired. Otherwise a very nice copy.

Price: £140.00

London: Faber and Faber, 1987. 271pp, with many illustrations, mostly in colour. Contents very clean and fresh and unmarked. Large quarto, in original white buckram, spine titled in silver, very bright and clean. Spine extremities puckered, corners sharp. The protected price-clipped pictorial dustjacket has a half-inch closed tear at base of spine, has small knocks at corners and spine ends, and slightly at some edges: clean and bright. Very nice copy with minor wear.

Price: £190.00