The Dexter Reference Atlas

A very scarce and beautifully illustrated atlas with a facsimile letter of Shackleton to the frontispiece and created shortly after the Treaty of Versailles. The first edition of The Dexter Reference Atlas. a beautifully illustrated and very scarce world atlas from Dexter Weatherproof, believed to have been published in 1921. In the publisher's decorative original green cloth, with frontispieces of a letter facsimile of Ernest Shackleton complimenting Dexter Weatherproof, as well as the Flags of All Nations and the Times of All Nations. Contains 128 leaves of colour and monochrome maps, illustrated by New-Zealand British painter Harry Rountree. Collated complete. Almost unknowingly, the Dexter Reference Atlas is especially intriguing compared with others. Created in 1921, the atlas shows the great changes to the world after the First World War and the Russian Revolution, with an insert citing the specific changes to borders and territories following the Treaty of Versailles. The letter facsimile from Shackleton's final expedition, with the great Antarctic explorer's death the following year. In the publisher's decorative original green cloth. Externally, smart, with faint fading marks to board extremities. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Minor rubbing to edges and spots to fore-edges. End papers are mostly bright and clean with faint offsetting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine.…