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Lot 143

PINKERTON (JOHN)
A Modern Atlas, from the Latest and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World, with its Chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States in Sixty Maps. Carefully Reduced from the Largest and most Authentic Sources, FIRST EDITION, T. Cadell and W. Davies [and others], 1815

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PINKERTON (JOHN)

A Modern Atlas, from the Latest and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World, with its Chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States in Sixty Maps. Carefully Reduced from the Largest and most Authentic Sources, FIRST EDITION, 61 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, all on stubs, title strengthened at extremities, marginal dampstain to some maps (just touching image of a few), later cloth, rubbed [Phillips, Atlases 724], folio (570 x 422mm.), T. Cadell and W. Davies [and others], 1815

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First edition of an atlas for which the publishers excuse the "the superiority of expense, by the superiority of execution [of the maps... and that] it may still be considered as the most magnificent and complete Atlas that has ever been published, in any age or country" (Introduction). Maps include World (4, Western and Eastern Hemispheres; same on Mercator's Projection), Australasia, North America (5), West Indies, China, Japan, Arabia, and Persia.

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