CAREY MATHEW Careys General Atlas Improved and Enlarged

Sale 2464 - Lot 263

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CAREY, MATHEW. Carey's General Atlas, Improved and Enlarged: Being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters, Their Principal Empires, Kingdoms, etc. 58 mostly double-page engraved maps (one folding) in original outline hand-color. Folio, 17x11 1/2 inches, contemporary quarter red roan over drab boards, lightly rubbed; preliminaries and final two maps with vertical creasing as often found, maps generally very clean with minimal instances of offsetting and an occasional small stain. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1814

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A tall, attractive, and completely unsophisticated copy of Carey's expanded edition of the atlas first published by him in 1795, that being the first American atlas to be printed in the United States. Here, 26 maps relate to North America, the United States and its burgeoning territories.