[CAREY, MATHEW].

Carey's American Pocket Atlas: Containing the Following Maps

Item #78673

[CAREY, MATHEW]. Carey's American Pocket Atlas: Containing the Following Maps, Viz. ... Phila.: Printed for Mathew Carey, by Lang and Ustick, 1796. 16,13-58,79-118pp. (as issued) and [1]p. of ads. Plus seventeen (of nineteen) folding maps, with the general map of United States and the map of Kentucky provided in facsimile. 12mo. Original half calf and marbled boards. Binding worn and stained, with bottom portion of front cover paper worn away. Top half of titlepage in expert facsimile, reproducing the first three lines of text, maps of the United States and Kentucky in facsimile. Moderate foxing and soiling. Good. HOWES C-135. Evans 30161. Sabin 10856. ESTC W37674. The first edition of this popular production, published the year following the first issue of Carey's American Atlas, which was the first American atlas printed in the United States. The states discussed in the text and represented in the maps are Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, the Northwest Territory, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. A wounded copy, but still a rare and early pocket atlas, rarely met with.

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