Arrowsmith, Aaron "A New General Atlas"

Aaron Arrowsmith.  A New General Atlas. 

London: A. Constable & Co and Longman & Co, 1817.  Atlas has been rebound in 20^th century brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine.  Ex libris from Free Library of Philadelphia.  Most maps have foxing and water stains with manuscript in ink and/or pencil mostly all in the maps margins.  Sold as is.

The maps from this atlas are the work of Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1833), an Englishman who was the foremost cartographer of his period.  This atlas contains 53 engraved maps; two world maps, 29 related to Europe, 16 on Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and 6 related to the Americas (North America, United States-extending to the Mississippi River, west of which all is blank and labeled as Louisiana--Mexico, West Indies, South America).