A highly detailed map of the region, with insets of the environs of Athens and the Bosphorus or Strait of Constantinople. Extends from the Caspian Sea, to Ertvan and Elisabatapol and Kurdistan, then to Cyprus and the Mediterranean, including all of Greece and the Balkins and the regions of Southern Russia north of the Black Sea.
The map includes an Etymological Explanation chart.
One of the best and most interesting large format maps of the region to appear in a 19th Century American Atlas.
O. W. Gray was a publishing firm based in Philadelphia. Later, they published as O. W. Gray & Son. They published atlases in the late nineteenth century. Gray's National Atlas was one of the most successful commercial ventures of the 1870s and one of the last to employ hand coloring on maps.