Valuable Books by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 32.

Valuable Books.

By Editor

WE would call the attention of all, and especially of our ministers and college students, to two important works that are for sale at this office. These are, "Labberton's Historical Atlas," and "Guin & Heath's Classical Atlas."

The Historical Atlas has fifty-one single-page colored plates, forty-three of which show the progress of history from the Empire of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14 : 4), through the four great empires of prophecy, down to the map of Europe as it exists at present. The last eight plates show the development of the United States from the colonies and claims as they stood in 1650 A. D., to the States and Territories as marked in 1868.

The Classical Atlas contains twenty-three large double-page colored maps of the different countries and of the world of the ancients, from the earliest records down to the fall of the Western Empire of Rome. It gives splendid detailed maps of Assyria, Babylonia, Media, Persia, Armenia, India, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia, Greece, the Empire of Alexander, the Roman Empire as a whole, and all its provinces separately, and the inroads of the Barbarians as they poured down upon Western Rome, to her ruin. Besides these maps, it gives twelve large pages of printed matter, descriptive of the geography of the countries shown in the maps. And after that there is a thirty-six-page index, giving the ancient and modern names and the latitude and longitude, of all the nations, cities, etc., etc., known to ancient history. If asked, Which is the better atlas? we would say, Neither, as it depends altogether upon the wish of the student. If you want to obtain a thorough knowledge of ancient history to the ruin of the Roman Empire, the Classical Atlas is the better one. If you want only a general outline of the progress of history of the world down to our own day, then the Historical Atlas is the better one. The prices are as follows: Historical Atlas, $1.50; Classical Atlas, $2.50. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.