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MILNER AND PETERMANN’S DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS. Being a Series of Maps Illustrative of Astronomy and Physical and Political Geography, with descriptive letterpress by the Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A., F.R.G.S., Author of “The Gallery of Nature,” &c., &c. The Maps of Physical and Political Geography constructed, or carefully revised and corrected, by Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S., Honorary and Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Berlin and Frankfort.
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⁂ The Atlas—“encyclopædic” in its character—embraces the three distinct divisions of Astronomy and of Physical and Political Geography. In its present form it represents by Engravings, Maps, and Letterpress, the General Phenomena of the Planetary and Stellar Universe, the Physical Constitution and Features of the Globe, and the Artificial Distribution of its surface into States, with Details respecting their Internal Economy and External Relations—thus forming the most comprehensive Atlas hitherto published.
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WEBSTER’S UNIVERSAL PRONOUNCING and DEFINING DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Condensed from Noah Webster’s large Work, with numerous Synonyms, carefully discriminated, by Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., Professor in Yale College. To which are added “Walker’s Key” to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scriptural Proper Names; a Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names, Phrases and Quotations from the Ancient and Modern Languages; Abbreviations used in Writing, Printing, &c. 634 pp.
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⁂ This comprehensive work is beautifully printed on good paper, in a clear and distinct type, in double columns, and has had the benefit of revision to the present time.