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Title: A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World with a special Map of each of the United States, plans of Cities &c. Comprehended in seventy five sheets and forming a series of One Hundred and Twenty Two Maps, Plans and Sections Author: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Date: 1852 Description: With chromolithographed pictorial title-page & 74 hand-colored lithographed maps (3 double-page: U.S., New York & Europe) includes frontispiece of mountains and rivers, plus insets. (Folio) 43.5x35 cm (17¼x13¾"), original half red morocco and mottled boards, gilt-tooled and lettered morocco cover label. Thomas, Cowperthwait publication of the Tanner/Mitchell atlas. Complete with all 74 listed maps, no. 74 being the frontispiece. Contains 33 maps of the United States, including the various states, many with insets of cities, and a separate plan of Washington DC. With the First Map to Show counties in California and New Mexico. Plus other full-page maps of South America and its regions, Europe and its various states, Asia, Africa, Oceana, etc. Phillips Atlases 807 . Lot Amendments The publication date of this edition is 1852, not 1854 as previously listed. Condition: Front board detached, bottom portion of spine lacking, rubbing, wear, and soiling to boards; some tears and creasing to corners of early pages, heavy offsetting to blank sides of leaves, toning and offsetting to maps with a few small chips or tears at page edges; all maps present and solid, generally very good. Item number: 281039