ARROWSMITH, Aaron, and Samuel Lewis.

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A New and Elegant General Atlas. Second edition of a popular and early American atlas in a contemporary binding, unusual in commerce. The atlas was first published the previous year in Philadelphia. It includes maps of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, New Holland, and North and South America, alongside the United States and specific states and territories.The American maps include significant depictions of the American West, including Louisiana, British Possessions in America, Spanish Dominions in North America, and North America. "When considered together the four afford a remarkably clear epitome of the knowledge of the West at the moment when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were poised for the take-off of their history-making expedition" (Wheat, p. 184).

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