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(SDUK.) Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. [Composite atlas of international city plans, American maps,and celestial charts]. 82 full-page engraved mapsheets, title-page to the celestial component only. 2 volumes. Folio, 16½x14 inches, publisher's calf-backed cloth boards, covers detached; original hand-color in outline; lengthy nineteenth-century ink inscription to the endleaf relating historical ownership of Gore House, London; a few scattered ink or pencil annotations but generally nice and clean. London, 1830s-1840s
First volume: Western Hemisphere; Principal Rivers; British North America (Canada); North America; North America Index Map; North America Sheet I Nova Scotia; North America Sheet II Lower Canada; North America Sheet III Upper Canada; North America Sheet IV Lake Superior; North America Sheet V Northwest and Michigan Territories; North America Sheet VI New York, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey; North America Sheet VII Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Columbia and Part of Virginia; North America Sheet VIII Ohio with Parts of Kentucky and Virginia; North America Sheet IX Parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana; North America Sheet X Parts of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas; North America Sheet XI Parts of North and South Carolina; North America Sheet XII Georgia with parts of North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama & Florida; North America Sheet XIII Parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida; North America Sheet XIV Florida; The Antilles or West-India Islands; The British Islands in the West Indies; Central America I; Central America II (with a large independent Texas); [Lacking South America Sheet I]; South America Sheet II Guayana and North Brazil; South America Sheet III South Brazil with Paraguay and Uruguay; South America Sheet IV La Plata and Chile; South America Sheet V Patagonia; South America Sheet VI Bolivia and Peru; Six Maps of the Stars.
Second Volume: Environs of London; London (double-page); Dublin; Liverpool; Birmingham; Environs of Paris; Edinburgh; Environs of Edinburgh; Paris (two-sheet); Bordeaux; Marseille; Toulon; Lisbon; Oporto; Madrid; Plan of Ancient Rome; Plan of Modern Rome; Naples; Florence; Syracuse; Athens; Pompeii; Genoa; Turin; Venice (2-sheet); Milan; Parma; Geneva; Constantinople; Brussels; Amsterdam; Copenhagen; Hamburg; Antwerp; Vienna; Frankfort; Dresden; Berlin; Munich; Warsaw; St. Petersburg; Moscow; Stockholm; Philadelphia; New York; Boston; Calcutta (two copies).
