With double-page title leaf with hand-colored engraved general map of South Carolina, engraved by Young & Delleker, with surrounding columns of text; 19 (of 28) double-page engraved district maps with hand-coloring, some folding as well, engraved by H.S. Tanner & Associates. (folio) 56x35 cm (22x13¾"), old cloth.
Re-issue, with minor changes, of Mills' Atlas of South Carolina, which, when first published in 1825 in Baltimore, was the first state atlas published in America. David Rumsey notes that "the District maps are very detailed showing land owners, taverns, Churches, mills, roads and some distances along the roads, swamps, mountains - all in the finest Tanner style of engraving." The present atlas is incomplete, lacking 9 maps. The maps that are present are the general map on the title-page, and the maps of Beaufort, Chester, Chesterfield, Colleton, Fairfield, Greenville, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, Marlborough, Newberry, Orangeburgh, Pendleton, Richland, Spartanburgh, and Sumpter. The maps are in many cases repaired and strengthened with Crompton's heat set tissue. Provenance: From the library of August Khon (1868-1930). Kohn was a Columbia, South Carolina, journalist and businessman who owned one of the finest private libraries on South Carolina in the country. His most noted work is Cotton Mills of South Carolina (1903). There is the name stamped on the back of some maps of Juilian Hennig, who was Kohn's nephew or similar close relation (as relayed by the consignor).
Condition:
Wear to covers; some offsetting to the maps, which are mostly very good with the repairs, incomplete and sold as is, but very rare.