A new and elegant general atlas, comprising all the new discoveries to the present time

Aaron Arrowsmith; Samuel Lewis; Jedidiah Morse

Verlag: Boston : Published by Thomas & Andrews, 1812

Beschreibung

[America Takes Shape: Atlases of an Expanding Nation] G-. Quarto, 28 x 23 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in). Bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Wear, with minor loss, to marbling paper boards. Collated: 62 (of 63) maps (2 folding). Lacks one map, Europe (map 3). Some browning, toning. Marginal loss to the map of "United Kingdoms of Great Britain," at the bottom corner. Contemporary signatures of John Dorsey Gaither. Samuel Lewis, this work's American cartographer, "is to be especially remembered as the draftsman who put in form for publication the celebrated map (originally drawn by William Clark) that in 1814 gave to the world its first detailed reflection of the American Northwest, as Lewis and Clark had pictured it" (Wheat, vol. II, p. 5, footnote 3. Cohen, p. 80. Phillips A-718. Ristow p. 265-266. Rumsey 28. Significantly, this atlas shows the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase and the limits of geographical knowledge of the lands west of the Mississippi River. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1912190003

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Titel: A new and elegant general atlas, comprising ...

Verlag: Boston : Published by Thomas & Andrews

Erscheinungsdatum: 1812

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good