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Title: A New Universal Atlas; Comprising Separate Maps of All the Principal Empires, Kingdoms & States Throughout the World: and forming a distinct Atlas of the United States Author: Burr, David H. Place: New York Publisher: D.S. Stone Date: [1835] Description: Engraved title-page + engraved contents leaf + 63 hand-colored copper-engraved maps, plus insets, all with tissue guards. 15x12, original quarter leather & cloth, front cover titled in gilt. Strikingly beautiful maps, finely detailed, richly colored, and nicely margined. Including 35 maps of the Americas, 24 of which pertain to the United States. "The United States of Mexico" map, dated 1832, including both California and Texas as part of Mexico, and with a large inset map "Guatemala or the United Provinces of Central America." The United States extends west only to the Arkansas & Missouri border. Approximately a third of the maps are U.S. states or territories, including a separate map of Oregon Territory. The latter map "includes in Oregon Territory all the area west of the 'Stony Mountains,' north of the 1819 Spanish treaty line and south of 54.40', the 'Boundary of Russian Possessions settled by Convention in 1824.' South of the southern border the Los Mongos R. flows merrily from Lake Timpanogos to the sea." Phillips 771; Wheat, Transmississippi West, 402. Lot Amendments Condition: Soiling and some datining to covers, spine rubbed and worn, 1½" piece of leather missing at spine foot, corners showing; foxing and some staining to endpapers and flyleaves, foxing to many of the tissue guards but not the maps, which are quite clean and bright, 4 tissue guards lacking, 1 tissue guard with some staining and a chip, pencil scribbles to back of the New York map, else very good, maps near fine to fine. Item number: 178402