Johnstons' Commercial and Library Chart of the World on Mercators Projection from he latest and best authorities, Containing the Position of Every Place of Commercial Importance, Showing the Principal Currents of the Ocean and the Chief Steamship Routes, with enlarged maps of Central Europe, The Principal British Possessions, the Suez Canal & Nile Delta, Isthmus of Panama, &c

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