Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Folio (540 x 356 mm). 23 engraved maps on 35 double-page or folding sheets, all hand-colored in outline. (All reinserted on new stubs, a few maps with small repairs verso, offsetting from maps). Modern morocco gilt, uncut; slipcase. Provenance: Thomas M. Clark (early ownership signature).

Early edition of Kitchin's popular atlas, with maps dated 1775-1790. Includes a later issue of Pownall's A New Map of North America, bearing the imprint August 15, 1786, the fourth issue of Jeffery's Chart of the St Laurence (1775), and the second issue of Ross's Course of the River Mississippi (1775). Collates as the Library of Congress copy, except: map 5 dated 1788 (instead of 1772); Map 22-23 dated 1787 (instead of 1780); and map 26-27 is Boulton's map, Africa, with all its States, Kingdoms... dated 1787 (rather than the 1772 map after d'Anville). 

This edition includes the map of Europe with 72 period naval flags that run along the bottom of the southern sheet, with a very early depiction of the American flag, with stripes and thirteen stars, at the far right. Kershaw 669; Phillips 3522; Stevens & Tree 31b; 49j; 76d.