Lot 164: FINLEY, ANTHONY. 1790-1840. A New American Atlas, designed principally

FINLEY, ANTHONY. 1790-1840. A New American Atlas, designed principally to illustrate the Geography of the United States or North America. Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1826. Folio (483 x 343 mm). 15 hand-colored engraved maps on 14 double-page sheets mounted on guards. Contemporary pale blue boards, cloth folding case. Rebacked to style with printed paper spine label, endpapers renewed. Some light browning and offsetting to maps, a few repairs. Provenance: Rittenhouse Club, Philadelphia (blindstamp to title page). FIRST EDITION, also published in a pocket edition, the maps printed on very fragile paper. Finley published maps of the United States, and of each state until 1831, when he sold his map and atlas copyrights to S. Augustus Mitchell. Howes F-140.