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New York: Colby & Co, 1883. 5th edition . Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: folded map. Subjects: History. Maps of the World's Great Empires. Cartography.
A CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF ANCIENT, MODERN, AND BIBLICAL HISTORY. SYNCHRONIZED. WITH MAPS OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST EMPIRES. CRITICALLY REVISED AND ENLARGED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO AD 1883 by Sebastian Adams | Ja. Paine (Illustrator) - 1885
by Sebastian Adams | Ja. Paine (Illustrator)
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A CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF ANCIENT, MODERN, AND BIBLICAL HISTORY. SYNCHRONIZED. WITH MAPS OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST EMPIRES. CRITICALLY REVISED AND ENLARGED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO AD 1883
by Sebastian Adams | Ja. Paine (Illustrator)
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New York: Colby & Co, 1885. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Elephant Folio. The Fifth Edition Adams' spectacular (and gigantic) chart; dissected and backed in linen, in brightly chromolithographed coated sheets. "A huge and impressive twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats" [Rumsey]. Rosenberg and Grafton, in Cartographies of Time, say that Adams' Synchronological Chart "was nineteenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and synthetic power." Half-green morocco over pebbled cloth with titling in the center of the front board; folded into portfolio. 28" x 13". Some minor loss to the linen at a few of the folds; dampstains to the bottom edges of the linen, not affecting the chart. (Rumsey 6000. Rosenberg and Grafton, 171-177.). Very Good binding.
- Bookseller Black Swan Books, Inc. (US)
- Format/Binding Quarter Leather
- Book Condition Used - Very Good binding
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Colby & Co
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1885
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A chronological chart of ancient, modern and biblical history / synchronized by S.C. Adams
by Adams, Sebastian C
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A Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History
by Adams, Sebastian C
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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New York: Colby & Co. , 1883. Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; shelf worn; spine is split with the front and rear boards separated as a result; interior foldout pages are split and detached in several places, but still complete; some chipping of the pages at the corners and edges; overall still a marvelous rare copy! Black boards quarterbound by leather (with faded, bumped and bruised leather corners as well) with gilt and black lettering on the front board. Very very rare and hard-to-find title! One of twenty seven thousand! "The author is fully aware of the difficulties and uncertainties of any system of Chronology extant. After mature deliberation and advice, it is deemed prudent and better to base this work upon the accepted system of 'Archbishop Usher,' upon which a large majority of all our histories and chronological dates are founded. To disturb this system would produce great confusion, with no good results, as the general outlines…
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A Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams
by ADAMS, Sebastian C
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Cincinnati: Strobridge & Co, 1876. Backstrip and corners worn, generally in fine condition. 68.5 x 664.5 cm (approximately 2.25 x 22 feet). Colored panorama joined and mounted on linen, lacquered, folding into original folio covers. Half calf. "A riot of color and detail." Second "Centennial" edition. A mammoth pictorial timeline of the history of the world, composed in a horizontal stream-of-time fashion and using Archbishop Ussher's canonical date of 4004 BCE for the Creation, it seamlessly moves from sacred to secular history. It was "a strong affirmation of the power of the regular, measured, single-axis timeline and the importance of visual tools in education" (Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, 'Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline,' Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, p. 173). It could be purchased as an accordion form book as here, or on rollers for mounting on the wall. The chart begins with a view of the world from the Eastern Hemisphere (since the discovery of the…
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