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Stock# 113166
Description
An unusual chart showing the comparative sizes of the major lakes and islands of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
While Mountain and River Charts were common in 19th Century Atlases, this lakes and islands chart is very unusual.
O.W. Gray Biography
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.
