A NEW GENERAL ATLAS, COMPRISING A COMPLETE SET OF MAPS, REPRESENTING THE GRAND DIVISIONS OF THE GLOBE...COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, AND CORRECTED BY THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES

by Finley, Anthony:

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Book Description

Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1831.. Engraved title, engraved index leaf, letterpress "General statistical table," sixty handcolored engraved maps (three double- page), two handcolored engraved comparative charts of mountains and rivers. Quarto. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, original green-toned engraved title label on upper cover, the flat spine gilt in six compartments, divided by horizontal gilt fillets and blind-tooled decorative roll, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, Finley's small format letterpress trade label mounted on front free endpaper. Very good. In a modern red cloth clamshell box, dark red morocco lettering piece. A fine copy of this important atlas, including three double-page maps of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, from one of the greatest American map publisher's of the period. A contemporary review of the 1824 first edition of this work is equally applicable to the present edition: "The number of elegant maps and atlases which have come from the press within a short time in the United States, is a most flattering proof of increased attention of the community to the important study of geography. The present work contains sixty maps, about half of which are devoted to the American continent [thirty in the present edition], and the remainder to other parts of the world, chiefly to Europe. The engraving is done almost uniformly with remarkable distinctness and the face of the maps is frequently beautiful, not overloaded with a confusion of useless names" (NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, July 1824, pp.261-262). Little is known of Anthony Finley, other than his published work "but he was probably born around 1790. Judging from contributors to his atlases, he apparently moved in the same Philadelphia circles of engravers and compilers as other contemporary publishers" (Ristow, p.268). PHILLIPS ATLASES 760. RISTOW, p.268. RUMSEY, p.135 (with ATLAS CLASSICA bound in).

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