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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ATLAS, 1929
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The entire atlas of the Fourteenth Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 24 of 1929, comprising 192 colour plate pages of maps of the world, all in excellent condition without damage or tears; 1929 is noteworthy for the Great Crash of the American stock market, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression; as a consequence, the archives indicate that publication right before the Great Depression proved financially catastrophic, and considered one of the rarest editions to survive