of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World
published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1847, with 72 hand-colored copper-engraved maps (complete), plus frontispiece of principal mountains and rivers of the world, and an engraved pictorial title page, Mitchell's important Atlas of H. S. Tanner without Tanner's name mentioned on the title page, bound in contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt-decorated title label on the upper cover; housed in a custom clamshell case with a morocco spine label, 17-1/2 x 14-1/4 in., front hinge cracked but holding, wear and loss at the extremities, ownership label on the front pastedown, thus a good copy only; near fine slipcase. Provenance: Atlanta, Georgia Collection
Condition
front hinge cracked but holding, wear and loss at the extremities, ownership label on the front pastedown, thus a good copy only; near fine slipcase