With 45 hand-colored copper-engraved maps (India is double-page, counting as two in the contents list, which totals 46); pictorially engraved title page. (Folio) 18½x14½, original mottled boards rebacked with modern leather, original leather cover label lettered in gilt "Teesdale's General Atlas 1832."
Fine series of maps drawn and engraved by John Dower. Includes the hemispheres, the world, Europe and its constituent countries, Asia, a large separate map of India, Persia and Arabia, China and Japan, Burmah, Australia, even Van Dieman's Land. Also, the Pacific, North and South America, the United States, Canada, Mexico and Guatimala, South America, etc. Phillips Atlases 796 (citing 1848 edition).
Condition:
Title soiled and stained, creased with verso repairs, smaller repair to contents-leaf; a few small marginal stains to the maps, the India map a bit darkened; bookplate of R. H. Johnstone; else very good, the maps mostly fine.