Specimen of the New Classical and Historical Atlas : /
Thomson, John
W. & A.K. Johnston Limited.
[Edinburgh : Thomson and Johnston,
c.1835] .
An unpublished specimen copy of an atlas using the plates of Thomson's New Classical and Historical Atlas with one added plate "Attica" and some of the others altered and bearing Johnston's imprint.
Maps : The World as peopled by the descendants of Noah after the dispersion at Babel ; Geography of the Hebrews illustrating the writings of Moses ; Geography of the primitive Greeks, with voyages of the Argonauts and Ulysses ; the World as known at the time of Herodotus -- The Geographical system of Ptolemy ; The Geographical system of Strabo ; The Geographical system of Erastothenes; Syria, Assyria and Babylonia -- Ancient Egypt by d'Anville -- Palestine as divided among the tribes -- Travels of the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob with the peregrinations of the Israelites in the wilderness -- Empire of Sesostris ; Empire of Ninus and Semiramis -- An historical map elucidatory of the Trojan war and the voyages of Aeneas, Ulysses & Telemachus -- Orbis veteribus notus -- Persian Empire ; Greece with part of Asia minor (Xerxes expedition) ; Empire of the Medes ; Ancient Greece by d'Anville ; Attica ; Map to illustrate the supposed travels of Anacharsis ; Battle of Salamis ; Battle of Plataea -- Division of the conquests of Alexander the Great ; Kingdom of Macedon -- Map illustrative of the Marches of Alexander and the voyage of Nearchus -- Parthian Empire B.C.141 -- Sicilia antiqua with Plan of the City of Syracuse as besieged by the Athenians -- Asia minor Antiqua -- Map of the expedition of Cyrus the Younger and the Return of the Ten thousand, with Battle of Cunaxa, BC 401 -- Italia Antiqua, with Urbs septicollis -- Hannibal's expedition from Saguntum in Spain, over the Alps into Italy with plans of the ground (Ticinus, Trebia, Cannae, Trasimenus) -- The Roman Empire (Eastern part) -- The Roman Empire (Western division) -- Gallia antiqua -- Hispania antiqua -- Germania antiqua -- Pannonia Illyricum Dacia et Moesia -- Vindelicia, Rhoetia et Noricum -- The countries travelled by the apostles -- Ancient Germany, France, Italy, Spain & Britain -- Europe before the Invasion of the Huns towards the year 370 -- Europe after the invasion of the barbarians towards the close of the Vth century and the beginning of the VIth -- North part of Turkey in Europe comprehending Ancient Illyricum, and Dacia, Moesia, &c -- South part of Turkey in Europe comprehending Ancient Graecia, and part of Macedonia and Thrace -- Sarmatia antiqua -- Saxon England -- The crusades for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land with the Kingdom of Jerusalem -- Eslem or the countries conquered and converted by Muhammed and his followers -- The Empire of Charlemagne -- Europe in 900 ; Europe in 1100 ; Europe in the time of Charles V ; Europe in 1789.