A Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Atlas, on a new and improved plan; or, a view of the present state of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the known World. ... illustrated

£350 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Unusual school “atlas”, conceived along the lines of Charles Valentin Lavoisne’s Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas (Philadelphia, 1820). The ‘Rail Road’ plate depicts a George Stevenson steam train (in the foreground), with a depiction, in profile, of the line from the Hetton Collieries to Sunderland, used for hauling coal to the docks for trans-shipment; this is an early depiction of a steam-train, predating Stevenson’s opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the first passenger railway in the world, by four years.

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