A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States. Plans of cities Comprehended in seventy sheets and forming a series of One Hundred and Seventeen maps, plans and sections.

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. Folio (17 3/8" x 14", 440mm x 350mm). With 71 (of 72; lacking map 71: Palestine) engraved hand-colored maps. Bound in the publisher's half red morocco over marbled boards. On the front board, author and title gilt to a red sheep label. On the spine, six transverse gilt fillets, making six panels. Extremities worn, with loss at the head and tail. Front board starting. Tanned throughout, with some foxing. Some chips to the lower edge of the front free end-paper. A little offsetting and some pigment burn to the maps. Henry Schenck Tanner (1786-1858) was the pre-eminent American cartographer, engraver and publisher of his day, considered the Golden Age of American publishing. Born in New York City, Tanner was active in Philadelphia, and pioneered the field of cartographic epidemiology; his 1832 account of the 1817 cholera epidemic combined up-to-date maps with public health data to comprehend the spread of the disease. His accurate and detailed Universal Atlas (first published in 1836) went through several publishers, culminating in the present item, the first published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell.…