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With 63 copper-engraved plates (including title page with vignette map plan), containing 60 maps (plus insets) and 5 charts, all but title page are hand-colored in outline. (Oblong folio) 14½x17¼, original flexible boards with tan paper covers printed in black, spine rebacked with modern black cloth tape.

Detailed maps of the world and its various nations and states, including North America, the United States (showing Texas belonging to Mexico), Mexico with the U.S., and the eastern portion of the U.S., etc. Some of the map sheets combine to make large maps of individual European countries. The map of the U.S. and Mexico has a large area named “Freie Indianer” covering present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Arizona (with New Mexico named but within Freie Indianer territory; California and Baja California is shown as Neu Californien and Alt Californien; Texas outlined in color as a separate territory, plus several Indian tribes mentioned. U.S. map shows the Oregon territory encompassing Washington and spreading up into Canada; a large “Mandan Distr.” covering present-day Montana, Wyoming and portions of Idaho and Nebraska; “Osage Distr.” covering portions of Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. Phillips Atlases 819 cites the 1856 edition, with 30 pp. text and 52 maps on 84 sheets; this edition undated, but with maps mostly dating from 1819 to 1838, but certain maps are revised only up to 1837. Also see Phillips 6098.