One col. map with 11 ancillary maps. Contents: Cartography of the world 1921 -- Herodotus B.C. 450 -- Strabo A.D. 18 -- Mela A.D. 43 -- Ptolemy A.D. 150 -- Mountain of Cosmas Indicopleustes -- Cosmas Indicopleustes VI century -- Wheel map XI century -- Hereford map 1280 -- Ortelius 1570 -- De Wit c.1700 -- The world c.1800.This is the second issue of the 1920 edition, which was the first edition to use Bartholomew\'s maps (the only earlier edition used maps by Andree, published in 1895 (see our #1010). Superb maps, beginning a run of Times Atlas editions that continues today. Cover title: The Times atlas & gazetteer of the world. Includes page of corrections from the 1920 ed.