The Scripture Atlas; Or, A Series of Maps, to Illustrate the Old & New Testament: Drawn and Engraved from the best Authorities, Ancient & Modern.

  • Murphy, William
  • Edinburgh: Printed for William Whyte & Co. 1830

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Description

4to, pp, [4] + 22 hand-coloured maps. Contemporary half black calf, marbled boards, spine divided by gilt rules, edges sprinkled red. A little toned. Rubbed, a little wear to extremities. Ink stamps of Knihovna Husova Domu v Praze to title-page and to verso of each plate, some transfer to facing pages, printed Czech library label to pastedown, small shelfnumber label to spine.

Notes

A scarce Biblical atlas, unknown to Library Hub, which records an 1830 printing with a London imprint at Edinburgh and an 1836 2nd edition at the BL. Worldcat records just a single copy bearing Whyte's imprint, at the New Brunswick Museum Library, and another 1830 printing published by W. Collins, present further down the colophon on this copy, in Toronto. No precedence of imprint has been established.
This copy is from a Czech institution and has been stamped throughout to the versos of the plates with a very inky stamp which has lightly transferred to each facing plate - in most cases wholly to the map margins.

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