CAREY, H.C. and I. LEA, publisher. A Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas, being a guide to the history of North and South America, and the West Indies... to the year 1822. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1822.

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CAREY, H.C. and I. LEA, publisher. A Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas, being a guide to the history of North and South America, and the West Indies... to the year 1822. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1822.

2o (445 x 302 mm). 46 hand-colored engraved double-page maps with broad text border, hand-colored double page chart, and uncolored double-page engraved plate of comparative heights of mountains and elevations in the world (some browing, minor marginal chipping to some plates, maps 36 and 37 worn and laid down, title repaired, library stamp to first leaf). Modern cloth.

FIRST EDITION. The advertisement in the beginning states that "the maps have been constructed from the latest and best authorities, and engraved by the first artists, and it is believed are as handsome and as correct as any yet published in this country... To obtain information for the completion of some of the maps [the publishers] have been compelled to write to various parts of the Union at different times, and wait in a state of suspense for several months, before it could be procured." Phillips 1373a.

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