1951 Hardcover World Atlas, Rand McNally, Pocket Book, Collectible Edition, First Edition, World Maps

1951 Hardcover World Atlas, Rand McNally, Pocket Book, Collectible Edition, First Edition, World Maps

A wonderful first edition hardcover collectible edition of Rand McNally 1951 World Atlas. This book is pocket size for easy carrying around. Maps are in color and in black and white. A fantastic gift for a collector of old maps or old books. A fun way to see how the world has changed over the years.

An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or a region of Earth. The use of the word "atlas" in a geographical context dates from 1595 when the German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura translated as "Atlas or cosmographical meditations upon the creation of the universe, and the universe as created." This title provides Mercator's definition of the word as a description of the creation and form of the whole universe, not simply as a collection of maps. The volume that was published posthumously one year after his death is a wide-ranging text but, as the editions evolved, it became simply a collection of maps and it is in that sense that the word was used from the middle of the seventeenth century.

Size:
6 ½ x 4 ½ inches
232 Pages
Published by Pocket Books, Inc. -- 1951

This book is in near fine condition. There is shelf wear on the edges of the cover. The book has no marks or writing in it or torn pages. The book is 68 years old.

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