Add this copy of A New and Elegant General Atlas, Comprising All the New to cart. $2,800.00, good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1812 by Boston: Published by Thomas & Andrews.
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Good. [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.
