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This edition had 12 volumes, 8,896 pages, 51,000 articles, and 9 million words. 5,000 black and white illustrations, 600 maps and a 64-page color atlas in the final volume. Articles were of the specific entry type, averaging 200 words or a fifth of a page, and were all unsigned. 400 contributors and editors were "noted", however.
In 1962, the Norwegian publishing house Cappelen issued an historical atlas in conjunction with the series Menneskenes liv og historie, popularly known as Grimberg's world history. The atlas became the 22nd and last volume in the series. In addition to 108 maps, it contained a registry of state leaders. [1] (Carl Grimberg died in 1941, and ...
It contains large full color plates and commentary on each map or set of maps. Includes approximately 600 maps covering the date span of 3000 BCE to 1975. It has been revised and reprinted for many times and the latest edition is the ninth edition, published in 2015, and reflects on the modern world up to the 21st Century.
Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas (United Kingdom, 1938–present) Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970) Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980) The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982) National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present) Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968) Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895–present)
The set included 2,000 illustrations, mostly in black and white, and 200 maps, included a 64-page world atlas at the end of Vol. 2. The articles were of the broad entry type, each about 400 pages or one third of a page. 300 contributors were listed at the beginning of Vol. 1 and 75 percent of the articles were signed.
Atlas of European history: Author: Dow, Earle Wilbur, 1868-Keywords: ... 1.5: Page size: 483 x 736 pts; 441 x 698 pts; 446 x 709 pts; 456 x 693 pts; 457 x 313 pts ...
The Penguin Atlas of World History is a two-volume, paperback-sized historical atlas first published by Penguin Books in 1974, with the latest edition published in 2004. [1] It was translated from a German atlas, dtv-Atlas Weltgeschichte [ de ] by Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann [ de ] , originally published by Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag ...
Fullarton was also responsible for Rev. J. M. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, its companion volume Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales and Bartholomew's Imperial Map. [ 4 ] Another major work was A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge , edited by George Godfrey Cunningham , who was a partner at Fullarton ...