CAREY, MATHEW. Carey's General Atlas. Letterpress title, 44 (of 45) engraved maps, lacking the large-scale map of the United States by Samuel Lewis, as often. Folio, 14 1/2x9 1/4 inches, contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper covered boards, worn, spine split; some foxing and staining, a few separations at folds. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, May 1 1796
Carey's 1796 General Atlas contains the same maps as the 1795 Guthrie Atlas, but without mention of Guthrie on the title and with the significant addition of Samuel Lewis's large map of the United States which had not been completed in time for the Guthrie Atlas. However, that map is nearly always lacking from the atlas, as here.
The maps comprise 2 world maps (one double-hemispheric, one Mercator projection), 20 maps of Europe, Africa and Asia, 20 maps of American interest (18 of North America, plus a map of South America and a map of West Indies), a polar projection of the Arctic and a map of the Northern Pacific.
