This is a beautiful hand colored map of Israel, Palestine, or the Holy Land.  Map details cities, roads, biblical and historical sites with color coding at the regional level.   Where appropriate alternate place names taken from the Arabic are noted.  Topography shown by hachure.  An inset map of Jerusalem appears in the lower right quadrant with all principal buildings noted.  The upper left quadrant features an engraved view of Damascus.  Features the fretwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1864 to 1869.  Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate no. 93 in the 1864 edition of  Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas . This is the first edition of the Johnson’s  Atlas  to bear the Johnson &amp; Ward imprint and the only edition to identify the firm as the “Successors to Johnson and Browning (Successors to J. H. Colton and Company)”.
<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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1864 (undated)
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