THE AMERICAN ATLAS.
Reid, John [pub]:
New York: Published by John Reid, 1796. Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress title within decorative border of typographic ornaments, twenty engraved maps on 19 leaves (one folding, seventeen double- page and two single-page maps printed on one double-page sheet), folding engraved plan of Washington. Folio. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century diced russia and contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, original paper label, "The / Atlas / for / Winterbotham's History / of / America. / 1796," pasted onto upper cover, the flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt double fillets, lettered in the second compartment. Expert repairs to titlepage, plan of Washington shaved at lower margin with very slight loss to plate area. Very good. A very fine copy of this rare and important American atlas, here including the folding plan of Washington, not found in most copies, and in the first state with Reid Wayland and Smith's 1795 imprint. The Reid atlas is one of the rarest and most interesting of American atlases, preceded only by the 1795 Carey and the Clark atlases as the earliest United States atlases. It includes detailed engraved maps of North and South America, and the United States; and individual maps of New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and the West Indies. The atlas in hand also includes the added detailed plan of Washington, not found in all copies. This map follows the Ellicott plan of 1792, and Reid's work is the first atlas to include a plan of Washington City. The continent maps, the general map of the United States, and those of Kentucky and Washington are copied from the London edition of Winterbotham. The rest of the maps are original to this work. EVANS 31078. HOWES R170. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1216, 1366. PHILLIPS MAPS, pp.595, 1005. RUMSEY 845. SABIN 69016. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.215. STREETER SALE 77. A CHECKLIST OF PRINTED PLANS OF WASHINGTON, DC 1792-1801 in MAPFORUM Issue 1.
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