This important American atlas is complete with 63 copper-engraved maps of the world (2), Europe (17), Asia (7), Oceania (2), Africa (4), and an extensive section on the Americas (31) comprising nearly half the atlas. A small group of maps have some outline color, including the United States map. Of particular interest is the map of Louisiana, which is highlighted by the "Mtns de la Roche or Stoney Mtns." Paul Cohen describes this map in Mapping the West, that, although as equally inaccurate as the Soulard version, "[the Samuel Lewis map] ... was the primary map of the newly purchased territory of Louisiana and its surroundings and, as such, reflected and shaped American popular geographical images of the western interior at the time of Lewis and Clark." Other American maps of note are early Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi Territory, British Possession in America, and Spanish Dominion in North America. The map of Australia shows an incomplete southern coastline, but a completely insular Tasmania. Quarto, hardbound in quarter leather over marbled paper boards.

References: Cohen, p. 80; Phillips (A) #718; Wheat (TMW) 259, 260, 261 & 262.

Condition: B

The maps are good with moderate toning, foxing and dampstaining throughout. There are pencil illustrations from a child on many of the blank versos. A former owner's signature is on the title page. Covers are heavily worn and the front cover is starting. Spine is chipped at bottom.