With 45 copper-engraved maps with period hand-colored outlines (1 are double-page), plus paper-guards; hand-color copper-engraved comparative view chart of the principal mountains and rivers of the world. (Folio) 16x13, original gilt-lettered quarter leather and green cloth rebacked in contemporary black cloth over original leather, hinges reinforced.

Scarce atlas containing maps from around the world. Includes a map of the United States as it was in 1846 with color outlines only going as far west as the states along the Mississippi River, including Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, the Northwest Territory and Wisconsin (which includes modern-day Minnesota) and the right half of Texas. West of the outlined states titled "Western Territory United States" and image shows very little information, as this was still being explored at the time. With a double-page map of the World (in hemispheres).