TANNER HENRY SCHENCK A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps o

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TANNER, HENRY SCHENCK. A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. Engraved title-page and 72 hand-colored engraved maps (complete.) Folio, 17x14 inches, publisher's brown cloth with centrally gilt stamped title on upper cover, attractively rebacked and recornered with straight grained leatherette, later endpapers; small closed tear to contents leaf, generally very clean with bright original hand-coloring. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1843

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First edition published by Carey and Hart after assuming rights to Tanner's atlas. The pair's imprint replaces that of Tanner on the title-page; however, they are quite transparent with the atlas's authorship. From their publisher's notice speaking of this revised edition: "the accuracy of the information contained in the Universal Atlas… the most elegant and complete work of the kind that has yet appeared in the United States, and greatly superior in its representations of American Geography to any similar production published elsewhere.... The publishers however, cannot refrain from stating their belief, that in this his latest effort, Mr. Tanner has produced a work which reflects on him the highest credit, and proves that his fame as a geographer is richly merited." Imprints on each map range from 1836-1841 variously credited to Tanner and Carey & Hart. The New Jersey map is after Thomas Gordon; Texas is after Thomas Bradford. Ristow, pages 200-201.