Mar 30, 2006 - Sale 2074

Sale 2074 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
CARY, JOHN. Cary's New Universal Atlas. 71 hand-colored mapsheets, some sheets part of larger 2- or 3-sheet maps. Folio, early 1/2 morocco, quite worn at extremities, covers coming loose; some light offsetting on the double-page or folding maps, one map with inked notations in the lower margin. London, 1803

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Despite the title-page date this is a composite atlas with the maps dated between 1799 and 1811. The double-page maps are not uniform in size, suggesting that they came from various editions.