With 173 steel-engraved maps, including 5 total double-page maps, 4 folding maps, 6 with period hand-coloring, 6 maps of the stars (with constellations lightly hand-colored), and 33 are full-page city view maps (3 are double-page), plus insets. (folio) 16x13½, loose front cover half sheep and marbled boards, otherwise disbound.
Contains numerous full-page world maps, many detail various sections of different countries. This atlas lacks the title page, but which has “Six Maps of the Stars” published by Baldwin and Cradock, 1831, and “Index to the Principal Places in the World [Modern] by James Michleburgh, published by Charles Knight, 1845, bound in at the back. The city views comprise of: Berlin, Bermingham, Brussels, Calcutta, Constantinople, Dresden, Edinburgh, Environs of Edinburgh, Hamburg, Lisbon, Liverpool, London (double-page), Environs of London, Madrid, two of Marseille (1 hand-colored), Moscow, Munich, Naples, Paris (double-page), Environs of Paris, Parma, St. Petersburg, Pompeii, Modern and Ancient Rome, Stockholm, Syracuse, Toulon, Turin, Venice (double-page), Vienna, and Warsaw.
Condition:
Lacks rear cover and title page, spine perished, rear cover detached; binding splitting with a few leaf groups loose towards rear; some maps with large tears, scattered edge tears, bookplate; most maps very good or better and suitable for framing - sold as is.