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Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1822. Folio, contemporary boards rebacked with spine and corners restored, renewed endpapers, housed in custom cloth folding box with printed title to spine. First edition of the first American atlas modelled on Le Sage's plan of having explanatory text surrounding maps, containing the first map of Missouri as a state. Complete with letterpress title, advertisement and contents leaf, 47 hand-colored double-page maps each with borders of letterpress descriptive text, three hand-colored double-page historical tables and engraved table of comparative heights of mountains of the world. A few marginal tears professionally rebacked; wear to edges of pages; some very light brownspotting; otherwise a fine copy of this rare atlas.


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