A New General Atlas of Modern Geography, comprised in Fifty Maps ... New Edition ...
DOWER John Crane ([c.1836].)
£1500.00
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Quarto (305 x 245 mm); engraved title-page, engraved contents leaf, fifty fullpage engraved maps, full-page engraved plate of rivers, all in original hand colour, interleaved, 13pp index. Contemporary half red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt titling to spine, original printed title label on the upper board. Bookseller’s label of [Henry] Oldland of Bristol. Boards slightly dust-soiled, otherwise very good. London : William Somerville Orr and Co.
Rare world atlas, compiled by John Crane Dower (ca.1791-1847), an important London-based engraved and mapmaker.
This atlas presents some bibliographic confusion; while described as a 'New Edition' we have been unable to find an earlier printing, or indeed a comparable example of this edition. The atlas was probably first produced about 1835, with this second printing following fairly shortly after. The atlas then underwent a revision in about 1840-2, depicting Texas as a separate state and updating the delineation of Australia.
The front paste-down bears the bookseller's label of [Henry] Oldland of Bristol, said to have flourished 1842-1851 (BBTI).
Stock Code: 205797
