World.- Quin (Edward) An Historical Atlas; in a Series of Maps of the World as known at different periods; constructed upon an uniform scale and coloured according to the political changes of the period, engraved title, 21 hand-coloured engraved maps with aquatint by Sidney Hall, including 6 double-page with linen strip support verso, some occasional light surface dirt and variation to tonal printing to the first few maps, otherwise minor off-setting and light handling creases, modern half calf, large 4to, R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1830.

⁂ Nineteenth century cartographic curiosity, with the world mapped from the perspective of the heavens in twenty-one periods, beginning with "B.C. 2348 The Deluge", and each "[with] a cloud over the skirts of every map, exhibiting [...] only the known parts of the globe, and lifting up or drawing off this cloud as the limits of the known world gradually extended. Every successive map thus combines, at a single glance, the geography and the history of the age to which it refers; exhibiting by its extent the boundaries of the known world, and by its colours the respective empires into which that world was distributed".