[Rarebooks] fa: THE MERCHANT SHIPPER'S AND OCEAN TRAVELLER'S ATLAS 1902 • Folio w/ 16 Color Maps

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The Merchant Shipper’s and Ocean Traveller’s Atlas. Fifth edition. Revised and enlarged. London: George Philip & Son, 1902. Large folio (48x35 cm./19x13.5 in.) in original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth; [4] pp. (title-page, preface and table of contents), 9 pp. of index at the end, plus 16 full-color maps, 13 of which are double-page.

The maps: 1. The World - Mercator. 2. The English Channel. 3. North Sea, Baltic Sea, & Baltic Canal. 4. North Atlantic Ocean. 5. North Atlantic Western Parts, Boston and New York. 6. The North Channel, Firth of Clyde, Irish Sea, Saint George's Channel & Manchester Ship Canal. 7. Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. 8. South Atlantic Ocean, Continuation of South America and False Bay. 9. Western Mediterranean. 10. The Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Corinth Canal and Suez Canal. 11. Indian Ocean. 12. Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Persian Gulf. 13. Bay of Bengal, China Sea, and Eastern Sea. 14). The Pacific Ocean, Nicaragua Canal, Panama Canal, and Continuation of Coast-line of United States. 15. Australasia. 16. North China and Japan.

Binding with damp-staining in the region of the spine, front and rear inner hinges nearly detached from the text block but the binding is holding and the maps are secured, rear free-endpaper detached but present; some damp-stain and evidence of old mildew on the reverse of the maps at the gutter, occasionally visible on the front (most noticeably on the Australasia map); light toning overall with a few small spots and light soiling to the margins; otherwise the maps are quite clean and sound. Front paste-down with the early owner’s signature of T. E. Lloyd, Wrexham, dated 12/6/03. Loosely laid in (folded) are two large blank cartographic charts, bearing the same owner’s signature.