With 60 hand-colored maps (24 are double-page) plus insets and other small maps; 1 hand-colored double-page plate showing the Mountains and Rivers of the world; 1 hand-colored time table plate; 12 hand-colored map charts; several wood-engraved vignettes; plus a steel-engraved plate before the title page titled “American Atlas.” (Folio) 18x14½, original quarter morocco and blue cloth, lettered in gilt, front cover stamped with U.S. Seal vignette, marbled endpapers.

Contains a double-page map of the Southwestern United States, showing a wide Nevada and Utah with Utah’s lettering crossing over into Nevada, an extremely wide New Mexico above a thinner but equally wide Arizona, several Indian tribe names present, and shows Fremont’s 1843 and 1844 routes. Other double-page maps include: The World; North America; New England; New York (7 insets); Texas (3 insets); South America; Europe and many of its countries; Africa; the Roman Empire, etc. See Phillips Atlases 837 (citing 1862 edition).