A New General Atlas of the World, Compiled and Constructed with the Greatest Care from the Latest Government and other Approved Modern Surveys and Authorities, both English and Foreign.

Engraved double-page title and leaf of contents, 47 double-page fully hand-coloured engraved maps by John Dower (India 2 maps joined), contemporary half morocco, spine worn, folio, Henry Teesdale, 1841 A fine series of maps, including world and hemisphere maps, and those of Australia, the Pacific Ocean, the United States, Mexico, etc. On the map of Mexico & Guatimala is the engraved notation, "The Province of Texas acknowledged an Independent State by Gt. Britain Henry Teesdale was a prominent London publisher and founding fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He produced large-scale maps and charts and a number of fine atlases in the early part of the nineteenth century. He employed the most skilled draftsmen and engravers and his maps are renowned for precise detail and fine colouring. This example of the atlas has the maps fully coloured.