Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey by Lang and Ustick, 1796. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on front blank to McGeorge Bundy: "The Junior Debating Prize / Groton School 1934 / To McGeorge Bundy / from Franklin D Roosevelt". 12mo. 16, 13-58, 79-118 pp. Illustrated with 19 engraved folding maps by William Barker, Joseph H. Seymour, and Amos Doolittle. School prize binding of quarter marbled brown calf over light brown printed tree "calf" paper-covered boards, decorated in blind and in gilt, Groton School insignia in gilt on front board; all edges trimmed; matching tree "calf" endpapers; book-plate on front paste-down, signed by Groton founder and headmaster Endicott Peabody; title-page toned; light offsetting from plates. Evans 30161; Howes C-137; Phillips 1364; Sabin 10856

A fine and very rare presentation copy of the first edition of the first American pocket atlas. Inscribed by President and Groton alum Franklin D. Roosevelt to McGeorge Bundy (1919-96), United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Gifted to Bundy as a debating prize while a student at the Groton School, in Groton, Massachusetts. Roosevelt attended Groton from 1896-1900, and was a close personal friend with headmaster Endicott Peabody, who has also signed. Roosevelt would later famously recall, "as long as I live, the influence of Dr. and Mrs. Peabody means and will mean more to me than that of any other people next to my father and mother."

Born in Boston and educated at Yale, Bundy served in World War II as an intelligence officer, and afterwards taught United States foreign policy at Harvard. He entered public life in 1961 when he was appointed special assistant for national security affairs by President Kennedy. He became a trusted advisor to the President, and was involved in all of Kennedy's major foreign policy decisions, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and crucially, the escalating war in Vietnam, in which he advocated for increased American intervention. Following Kennedy's assassination, he was retained in his post by President Lyndon B. Johnson, where he continued to promote increased American intervention and bombing in Vietnam. He officially resigned from Johnson's administration in 1966, and went on to serve as president of the Ford Foundation until 1979, and then as professor of history at New York University until his death.

Complete copies are rare to auction; according to RBH, only four other complete copies have appeared at auction since 1915.