GEOGKAPHICAL WORKS 



NEW GENERAL ATLAS, 



DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY. 



THE KOYAL ATLAS 



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MODERN GEOGRAPHY 



IN A SERIES OF ENTIRELY ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC 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. 



Athenaeum, August 10, 1861. 



Under the name of "The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography," Messrs Blackwood and Sons 

 have published a book 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 mag- 

 nificent book. Mr A. Keith Johnston answers for the engraving and printing : to those who 

 love clear forms and delicate bold type we need say no more. All that maps should be, 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 Modern 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 

 place 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. 



Morning 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. 



Guardian. 



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. 



PUBLISHED BY W. BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 



