NEW GENERAL ATLAS.
DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY.
T H E E O Y A L A T L A S
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MODERN GEOGRAPHY
IN A S ERI E S OF E N T I R E L Y ORIG INAL AND AUTHENT I C MAPS.
BY A. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E. F.R.G.S.
Author of the “ Physical,Atlas,” &c.
With a complete Index of easy reference to each Map, comprising nearly
150,000 Places contained in this Atlas.
Imperial Folio, half-bound in russia or morocco, £ 5 ,15s. 6d.
Athenssum, August 10,1861. -
Under the name of “ The Royal Atlas of Modem Geography," Messrs Blackwood and Sons
have published a hook of maps, which for care of drawing and beauty of execution appears to
leave nothing more to hope for or desire. Science and art have done their best upon this magnificent
book. Mr A. Keith Johnston answers for the engraving and printing: to those who
love clear forms and delicate hold type we need say no more. All that maps should he, these
maps are: honest, accurate, intelligible guides to narrative or description...................... Of the
many noble atlases prepared by Mr Johnston and published by Messrs Blackwood and Sons,
this Royal Atlas will be the most useful to the public, and will deserve to be the most popular.
Saturday Review.
The completion of Mr Keith Johnston’s Royal Atlas of Modem, Geography claims a special notice
at our hands. While Mr Johnston’s maps are certainly unsurpassed by any for legibility and
uniformity of drawing, as well as for accuracy and judicious selection, this eminent geographer s
Atlas has a distinguishing merit in the fact that each map is accompanied by a special index of
remarkable fulness. The labour and trouble of reference are in this way reduced to a minimum.
. . . . The number of places enumerated in the separate indices is enormous. We believe,
indeed, that every name which appears in the maps is registered in the tables; and as each
plaee is indicated by two letters, which refer to the squares formed by the parallels of latitude
and longitude, the method of using the index is extremely easy and convenient......................We
know no series of maps which we can more warmly recommend. The accuracy, wherever we
have attempted to put it to the test, is really astonishing.
Horning Herald.
The culmination of all attempts to depict the face of the world appears in the Royal Atlas,
than which it is impossible to conceive anything more perfect
G uardian.
This is, beyond question, the most splendid and luxurious, as well as the most useful and
complete of all existing atlases.
Examiner.
There has not, we believe, been produced for general public use a body of maps equal in
beauty and completeness to the Royal Atlas just issued by Mr A. K. Johnston.
Scotsman.
An almost daily reference to, and comparison of, it with others, since the publication of the
first part some two years ago until now, enables us to say, without the slightest hesitation, that
this is by far the most complete and authentic atlas that has yet been issued.
Index Geographicus: Being a List, -Alphabetically arranged,
of the Principal Places on the Globe, with the Countries and
Subdivisions of the Countries in which they are situated, and their Latitudes
and Longitudes. Compiled specially with reference to Keith J ohn-
. ston’s Royal Atlas, but applicable to all Modern Atlases and Maps. In One
Volume Imperial Octavo, pp. 676, price 21s.
The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena. By Alex.
Keith J ohnston, F.R.S.E., &c., Geographer to the Queen for Scotland. A New
and Enlarged Edition, consisting of 35 Folio Plates, 27 smaller ones, printed In
Colours, with 135 pages of Letterpress, and Index.
SUBJECTS TREATED OF.
Geography and Orography, . . . . 11 Plates.
H y d ro g rap h y ,........................................................... 6 „
Meteorology and Magnetism, . . . . 6 „
Botanical G e o g r a p h y , ...........................................2 „
Zoological G e o g r a p h y , ...........................................6 „
Ethnology and S ta tis tic s,.......................................... 4 ,,
Imperial Folio, half-bound morocco, £8, 8s.
“ The Physical Atlas of Mr Keith Johnston—a perfect treasure of compressed information.”—
Sir John Herschel.
“ There is no map in this noble Atlas upon which we might not be tempted to write largely.
Almost every one suggests a volume of reflection, and suggests it by presenting, in a few hours,
accurate truths which it would be the labour of a volume to enforce in words, and by imprinting
them, at the same time, upon the memory with such distinctness that their outlines are not
likely to be afterwards effaced. The ‘ Physical Atlas ’ is a somewhat costly work, reckoning it
only by its paper; but upon its paper is stamped an amount of knowledge that could scarcely be
acquired without the reading of as many books as would cost seven times the price.”—Examiner.
“ This Atlas ought to have a place in every good library. . . . We know of no work containing
such copious and exact information as to all the physical circumstances of the earth on
which we live.”—Quarterly Review.
The Physical Atlas. By Alexander Keith Johnston,
F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., Geographer to the Queen for Scotland. Reduced from the
Imperial Folio. This Edition Contains Twenty-Five Maps, including a Palaeontological
and Geological Map of the British Islands, with Descriptive Letterpress,
and a very copious Index. In Imperial Quarto, half-bound morocco,
£2, 12s. 6d.
<• Executed with remarkable care, and is as accurate, and, for all educational purposes, as valuable
as the splendid large work (by the same author) which has now a European reputation.”—
Eclectic Review.
Atlas of Scotland. 31 Maps of the Comities of Scotland,
coloured. Bound in roan, price 10s. 6d. Each County may be had separately,
in Cloth Case, Is.
A Geological Map of Europe, exhibiting the different
Systems of Rocks according to the latest ^researches, and from Inedited
materials. By Sir R. I. Murchison, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., Director-General of
the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland; and J ames Nicol, F.R.S.E.,
F.G.S., Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Constructed
by Alex. Keith J ohnston, F.R.S.E., &c., Geographer to the Queen, Author of
the “ Physical Atlas,” &c. Scale, ^ of Nature, 76 miles to an inch. Four
Sheets Imperial, beautifully printed in Colours. Size, 4 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 5
inches. In Sheets, £3, 3s ; in a Cloth Case, 4to, £3, 10s.