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Boston: O. Everett, 1824. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 9pp extract, salvaged from a damaged issue of The North American Review, Volume XVIII, No. 43, April, 1824. A contemporary review of the scarce titles published in Philadelphia, 1823, and Fielding Lucas, Baltimore, 1823, respectively. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Philadelphia : H.S. Tanner, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Atlas folio, 60.5 x 43 cm. Contemporary leather backed boards, rebacked with new spine. Solid binding and cover. Complete with 22 hand-colored, copper engraved maps. A few of the maps have marginal restoration or restoration at center folds. Corners bumped. Half-title has some marginal chipping. Engraved title showing Columbus landing in the New World has some toning, minor spotting. 18 text pages (one provided in facsimile). Manuscript map of Cape Cod on verso of map 17. <br> Refs: Howes T29; Sabin 94319; Phillips 1374; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, p. 251; Wheat Transmississippi 350; Rumsey 2892. <br> What makes the Tanner Atlas special is that it was so much better than other contemporary American atlases and that it was uniform in scale, updated with recent discoveries in the interior of North America (Tanner consulted Lewis and Clarks actual maps to devise his atlas) and in an large and opulent… Read More