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With 36 cerographic [i.e. wax engraved] color maps. 45.5x36.3 cm (18x14¼"), original half morocco & cloth, front cover lettered in gilt.

Morse's rare and sought-after North American atlas. Among the significant maps are "Map of the Californias by T.J. Farnham," a pre-gold rush map of California and the southwest from the Rio Grande to the Pacific, and the tip of Baja to the Oregon border; Texas during its period as an independent republic; Josiah Gregg's "A Map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas and New Mexico showing the Great Western Prairies"; and  Mexico, which includes New California, New Mexico, and the southwest, with Texas shown but not as part of Mexico. About the cerographic process, Warren Heckrotte notes: "Woodward describes the development of wax engraving of which this atlas was one of first done by this process and most notable."

Provenance: Reese, 7/88

References: P-LG 1228. Woodward, The All-American Map.