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With 73 copper-engraved double-page plates of maps and charts (3 are folding), most with modern hand-colored outlines; maps drawn by F. Handtke, A. Theinert, J.G.B. Klose, and A. Tschierschky; additional pictorial double-page title page and engraved title page (folding). (Folio) 14¼x9¼, period ¼ sheep and mottled boards, marbled endpapers. First Edition.

World maps primarily of European countries and includes a map of North America, the United States and a map of Mexico with a large portion of the U.S. These three maps pertaining to North America show Texas as a separate country, and the present-day western U.S. is labeled as Freie Indianer and shows as belonging to Mexico. Plus, several Tribal Indian names are represented. Eight of the map plates are notable or relate to the Americas. According to Phillips the first edition was "issued in 20 parts, noted in Kayser's Vollständiges Bücher-Lexicon, vol. 10, 1848, p. 368." Phillips Atlases 6097.