FINLEY, ANTHONY. A New American Atlas, designed principally to illustrate the Geography of the United States of North America. 15 hand-colored engraved maps on 14 double-page sheets, by J.H.Young after D.H.Vance and others, extra-illustrated with small format letterpress label on green paper mounted on rear pastedown titled 'Population of the Principal Cities.' Letterpress title and index. Folio, 19x12 3/4 inches, publisher's red 1/2 morocco, upper cover with centrally-placed morocco label lettered in gilt with border in gilt and blind, housed in modern cloth box, with morocco lettering piece; occasional offsetting to maps. Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1826
First and only edition of one of the handsomest and most important American atlases of the early nineteenth century. Phillips, Atlases, 1378; Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, page 270.
