JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The American Atlas: or, A Ge

JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America. 25 engraved maps on 30 joined mapsheets, hand-colored in outline. Folio, contemporary 1/2 calf, front cover detached, quite worn; interior generally clean, first sheet of the Mouzon map repaired along the fore-edge and the second sheet trimmed to or just within the neatline on the right edge, Newfoundland map trimmed within the neatline along the bottom, a few extraneous creases and minor foxing and offsetting. Overall, a nice copy. Phillips 1165 and 1166. London: Sayer and Bennett, 1776

the most important atlas of the americas issued on the eve of the revolution. The atlas includes several key American maps, including editions of the Fry/Jefferson map of Virginia, Mouzon's map of the Carolinas, the first large-scale map of New England and the first map of Pennsylvania to include the western frontier. Copies of the atlas vary; this copy with Brassier's Survey of Lake Champlain and an inset of Boston on Meade's Most Inhabited Part of New England.
Includes the following maps: 3 Charts of North and South America by Braddock Meade (6 sheets), map of the Russian Discoveries, Bowen and Gibson's An Accurate Map of North America (4 sheets), North America after Anville, Dunn's British Empire in North America, Jeffery's Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence (2 sheets), A Chart of the Gulf of St. Laurence, A Map of the Island of St. John, Cook & Lane's General Chart of the Island of Newfoundland (2 sheets), A New Map of Nova Scotia, Meade's Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England (4 sheets), Holland & Pownall's The Provinces of New York and New Jersey (2 sheets), Brassier's A Survey of Lake Champlain (not found in all copies), Carver's A New Map of the Province of Quebec, Scull's A Map of Pennsylvania (3 sheets), Fry & Jefferson's A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia (4 sheets), Mouzon's Accurate Map of North & South Carolina (4 sheets), Jefferys's The Coast of West Florida and Louisiana (2 sheets), Ross' Course of the Mississipi (2 sheets), The Bay of Honduras, D'Anville's Map of South America (4 sheets), and A Chart of the Straits of Magellan.

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