With 60 hand-colored copper-engraved maps (including two plates comparing mountains and rivers); engraved title-page and contents list. (4to) original half leather and marbled boards.
Important American atlas featuring separate maps of the various states, engraved by Young & Delleker. Includes North America (with only modest U.S. claims in the Northwest, meeting the Russian Possessions not too far north of the present U.S.-Canada border, San Francisco Bay is called "Bay of Sr. F. Drake," and into it empties the Buenaventura River all the way from L. Salado), the United States, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, etc., on to Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri. Also, Mexico (Francisco Bay now, with Buenaventura running from Salt Lake), West Indies, South America, etc., and on into Europe, Asia, Palestine, Africa, and the rest of the world. Phillips 752 (citing 1829 edition)
Condition:
Covers rubbed, extremity wear, spine worn and repaired, rear joint cracking; title-page soiled, staining to endpapers intruding to title and a few leaves within, occasional soiling or light foxing to the maps, primarily margins, crayon scribbles to the verso of the map of Egypt and both recto and verso of comparative heighths of mountains chart, hinge cracking before title, else