Jefferys, Thomas
THE AMERICAN ATLAS; OR, A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE CONTINENT OF AMERICA; WHEREIN ARE DELINEATED AT LARGE ITS SEVERAL REGIONS, COUNTRIES, STATES, AND ISLANDS; AND CHIEFLY THE BRITISH COLONIES ... LONDON: ROBERT LAURIE AND JAMES WHITTLE...(SUCCESSORS TO THE LATE MR. ROBERT SAYER), 1794
Jefferys, Thomas
Letterpress title with publisher's overslip (verso blank), 1 p. letterpress index to the maps (verso blank), otherwise engraved throughout. ILLUSTRATION: 23 engraved maps, on 30 sheets, all with period hand-coloring in outline, mounted on guards throughout.
Folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.; 546 x 387 mm). BINDING: Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century Russia over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.
Some spotting, minor chips to corners of maps, not affecting image, expert repairs to margins of map 6 and fold of map 14, closed tear to map 21.
Provenance:
Howes J-81; Phillips, Atlases 1165; Ristow (editor), Thomas Jefferys The American Atlas London 1776, facsimile edition; Sabin 35953 (refers, he had not seen the 1775); Streeter Sale I, 72
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THE AMERICAN ATLAS; OR, A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE CONTINENT OF AMERICA; WHEREIN ARE DELINEATED AT LARGE ITS SEVERAL REGIONS, COUNTRIES, STATES, AND ISLANDS; AND CHIEFLY THE BRITISH COLONIES ... LONDON: ROBERT LAURIE AND JAMES WHITTLE...(SUCCESSORS TO THE LATE MR. ROBERT SAYER), 1794
Jefferys, Thomas
Letterpress title with publisher's overslip (verso blank), 1 p. letterpress index to the maps (verso blank), otherwise engraved throughout. ILLUSTRATION: 23 engraved maps, on 30 sheets, all with period hand-coloring in outline, mounted on guards throughout.
Folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.; 546 x 387 mm). BINDING: Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century Russia over period marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.
Some spotting, minor chips to corners of maps, not affecting image, expert repairs to margins of map 6 and fold of map 14, closed tear to map 21.
Provenance:
Howes J-81; Phillips, Atlases 1165; Ristow (editor), Thomas Jefferys The American Atlas London 1776, facsimile edition; Sabin 35953 (refers, he had not seen the 1775); Streeter Sale I, 72
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