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Rare Atlas of Australasia
By JOHNSTON, W[illiam] and A[lexander] K[ieth], 1886
W. & A.K. Johnston’s Colonial Atlas of Oceania. Containing Thirteen Full-Coloured Maps.
- Author: JOHNSTON, W[illiam] and A[lexander] K[ieth]
- Publication place: Edinburgh and London
- Publisher: W. & A. K. Johnston Geographers to the Queen
- Publication date: 1886.
- Physical description: Quarto (290 by 180mm), title, 13 double-page chromolithograph maps, original quarter cloth over boards with publisher’s label to upper and lower covers, dampstained.
- Inventory reference: 1908
Notes
Rare Worldcat records only two institutional examples, one in the State Library of New South Wales and the other in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Bibliography
- OCLC 224020631 & 494885736.
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