A very attractive example of Johnson's 1862 map of the Roman Empire.  Covers all of Europe as well as much of the middle east, Persia and parts of North Africa.  Presents the empire at its greatest extant following the Punic Wars.  Insets detail Greece and the Italian peninsula.  Uses ancient place names.   Features the strapwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1863.  Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate numbers 96-97 in the 1862 edition of  Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas . This is the first edition of the  Family Atlas  to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alvin_J._Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alvin J. Johnson"><span title="19th century United-States cartographer">Alvin Jewett Johnson</span></a>
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1862 (undated)
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