A New Universal Atlas of the World.
11 x 9 inches, Large quarto in original marble paper-covered boards, re-backed & re-cornered, scuffed; 20 maps with fine original wash & outline color; minor waterstaining, few small mends, near excellent.
First edition of a very capably engraved and attractively colored, "mid-sized" atlas, containing a fine double-page map of the United States, which embodies Lewis & Clark and other, then relatively recent information. When compared to many other contemporaneous maps, this one is more sophisticated in both its cartography and engraving. The same can be said for the other maps in the atlas, which together present a more modern clarity than much that had been previously published in the United States.
Jedidiah Morse has been called the father of American geography. Sidney E. Morse was his son (as was Samuel of telegraph and Morse Code fame). The present atlas was one of the first publications on which Sidney worked with his father.
* Phillips 306.
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