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Browse All : School Atlas and View by James Reynolds
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored engraved view. Showing famous landmarks and monuments from all over the world. Includes reference to the buildings name and heights, beneath the view.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored engraved view. Showing facial portraits from different parts of the world, and demonstrating racial and regional differences. The portraits are grouped under the headings: Asiatics, Australians, Europeans, Polynesians, Africans and Americans, and illustrate European perceptions of people indigenous to each area.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored engraved comparative view of the Principal Waterfalls in the World, arranged for comparison from Europe and Africa to Americas, with text on verso. The highest shown is "Cataract of Gavarny (Pyrenees)", and the lowest is the "Last cataract of the Nile". Includes list of waterfalls of the world and notes.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored engraved view of the comparative length of the world's rivers and size of the lakes. include: Danube, Rhine, Nile, and Amazon, are placed side by side so as to demonstrate their comparative lengths and are surrounded by lakes including the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, and Geneva and Michigan lakes. Includes List of rivers and lakes.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored engraved view of the comparative heights of mountains and volcanoes from around the world. Includes list of mountains and volcanoes: Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Skiddaw and Cader Idris along with landmarks such as the Dover castle and Greenwich observatories. In Europe, several mountains from the Pyranees and Alps are shown as well as others from Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey and Rusia. Africa, North and South American Mountains, inlcuding the Andes are also shown. The volcanoes depicted include Mount Etna and Vesuvius and several from Quito.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored time table chart showing the geological section of the earth's crust. The map also has notes and diagrams illustrating fossil remains, rocks, and view of section of the London Basin - artesian wells.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored view. Shows reconstructions of extinct creatures in their established epocs prior to the creation of man, identified by a reference beneath the illustration.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Hand colored map of the world showing the distribution and names of all active volcanoes, identified by a reference beneath the illustration. Includes notes.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Geological diagram showing the principal causes of geological changes on the Earth's surface, identified by a reference beneath the illustration.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Colored diagram drawn and engraved by John Emslie, with explanatory card, this is an imaginative depiction of a land and sea displaying a wide range of atmospheric phenomena. This are numbered and listed at bottom panel and include wind, waterspouts, various cloud formations, precipitation, glaciers, aurora, rainbow, halo, mirage, mock suns, zodiacal light, lighting, falling stars and aerolites. On verso: text with explanations of The Atmosphere, Aerial Meteors, Aqueous Meteors, Luminous Meteors and Igneous Meteors.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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An astronomical diagram drawn and engraved by John Emslie showing a cros section of the Earth at the equator and the surrounding atmosphere. Various locations on the Earth's surface are identified, and the diagram illustrates how the phemonenon of refraction can be caused by the atmosphere. Includes explanation.
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[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Engraved color view by John Emslie illustrating Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike, the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales and England respectively, as well as the heights of other significant locations in the British Isles. Includes notes: "The smaller figures denote the geological formations of the hills".
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