Finley, Anthony “Western States & Territories"

Anthony Finley.  “Western States & Territories.”  From Malte-Brun's A New General Atlas.

Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1828.  9 5/8 x 7 ¾.  Engraved by J.H. Young.  Original hand color. Minor stain bottom right hand margin.  Very good condition. 

From 1827 to 1829, Philadelphia publisher Anthony Finley produced an American version of Conrad Malte-Brun's famous Universal Geography. Malte-Brun was a Danish geographer who produced a number of influential works which were copied and printed by numerous publishers in different countries. To illustrate the geography, in 1828 Finley added an atlas of 40 maps based on Malte-Brun, which was then reissued the following year by John Grigg. Many of the non-American maps are based on maps by British cartographer Aaron Arrowsmith, but the American maps are Finley's original work, engraved by J.H. Young.