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TANNER, T. R.; and FINLEY, ANTHONY. A New General Atlas. 61 hand-colored engraved mapsheets, plus hand-colored engraved mountain chart. Folio, 400x335 mm, publisher's cloth backed and tipped with modern morocco; scattered minor foxing and soiling in the margins. New York: Published at Tanner's Geographical Establishment, 1846
Unrecorded atlas published by Henry Schenck Tanner's son T. R. Tanner. All 35 maps showing the Americas are present as issued. Virtually all the maps with the exception of a few at the end are from copperplates used in Anthony Finley's General Atlas that was published between 1824 and 1834. Most of the plates have been updated or have additional features. For instance, the map of Mexico shows an independent Texas separate from the United States. Various ornamental borders are used on the maps, including a rarely seen piano keyboard border. Several loose maps from this atlas has been located, but never the published atlas. The only mention of the atlas located was in an advertising catalogue for 1845 published by T. R. Tanner, publisher in New York and son of Henry Schenck Tanner (the well-known Philadelphia atlas publisher). The catalogue advertises a "Universal Atlas" in preparation. The title of this atlas is "New General Atlas" as indicated on the title-page, but the gilt-stamped title on the front cover identifies the atlas as the "New Universal Atlas." This is most certainly the volume being prepared for publication. A rarity indeed.
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