A New and Elegant General Atlas
Arrowsmith, Aaron; and Samuel LEWIS
Published by Thomas & Andrews, Boston, 1812
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63 engraved maps (2-double-page). 4to. The first edition of this early, influential American atlas was published at Philadelphia in 1804, with an editions following at Boston in 1805. The present 1812 edition with seven new maps added (Austalasia, Polynesia, New-Granada, Carracas, Peru, Chili, and La Plata). Nearly half the maps in the atlas relate to the Americas, including several notable maps of the American west. Commenting on the Louisiana map (which extends to the Pacific), Cohen writes: "The Samuel Lewis map was the primary map of the newly purchased territory of Louisiana and its surroundings and, as such, reflected the shaped American popular geographical images of the western interior at the time of Lewis and Clark." This example with provenance to Thomas Mellon (1813-1908), American entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh. American Imprints 24632; Cohen, Mapping the West, p. 80; Phillips, Atlases 718; Ristow pp.265-266; Rumsey 28.; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 259, 260, 261 & 262 Modern tan morocco with green cartographic inlays on the upper cover, slipcase. Foxing and browning, a few minor edge tears. Provenance: Thomas Mellon (signed on the title) 63 engraved maps (2-double-page). 4to. Seller Inventory # 339392
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Title: A New and Elegant General Atlas
Publisher: Thomas & Andrews, Boston
Publication Date: 1812
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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A NEW AND ELEGANT GENERAL ATLAS. COMPRISING ALL THE NEW DISCOVERIES, TO THE PRESENT TIME; CONTAINING SIXTY-THREE MAPS, DRAWN BY ARROWSMITH AND LEWIS.
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Boston: Thomas and Andrews, October 1, 1805., 1805
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Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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An early 19th-century American atlas, first published in the United States the previous year in Philadelphia. Thomas and Andrews also issued Boston editions of the work in 1812 and 1819. The titlepage states that this edition was "intended to accompany the new improved edition of Morse's GEOGRAPHY, but equally well calculated to be used with any former edition, with his gazetteer, or any other geographical work." The atlas includes maps of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, New Holland, and North and South America. Maps for individual European countries, the United States, and specific states and territories of the U.S. are also included. Separate maps are also provided for the West Indies and British dominions in North America and South America. The American maps include significant depictions of the American West, including Louisiana (Wheat 259), British Possessions in America (Wheat 260), Spanish Dominions in North America (Wheat 261), and North America (Wheat 262). Wheat says collectively of these maps: "When considered together the four afford a remarkably clear epitome of the knowledge of the West at the moment when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were poised for the take-off of their history-making expedition." A nice copy of a popular and early American atlas, in a contemporary binding, rarely met with in the trade. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 259, 260, 261, 262. RUMSEY CATALOGUE 2436 (1804 ed). PHILLIPS ATLASES 708. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 8972. Title-leaf, index leaf, sixty-three maps (three folding). Quarto. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt. Boards scuffed, rubbed, and edgeworn. Hinges tender, first few leaves creased. Mostly minor foxing throughout. Overall, a very good copy. Seller Inventory # 55683
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