[United States] Gray's Atlas of the United States,

with general maps of the world. Accompanied by descriptions Geographical, Historical, Scientific, and Statistical. By O.W. Gray, civil and topographical engineer, no. 10 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Stedman, Brown & Lyon, 1873, (4),5-68,68a-d,(69 blanco),70-175 followed by 5 "Classified directories": 5,9,5,2,5 p., with 76 detailed hand-coloured, lithographed maps and plans incl. 12 double-page plates, original half leather with gilt lettered, blindstamped boards, folio.

Here and there some foxing or duststaining and slightly thumbed/soiled; content in places slightly tender; leather and edges of boards scratched. Nevertheless a very acceptable copy. Between p. 144 and 153 (unpaginated leaves) 2 pages are lacking as usual. Fine atlas, in which the maps are included in the consecutive numbering in order to reduce costs. With detailed maps of the world and the continents, maps of the US (general, botanical, climatical, geological and zoological), maps of the various American states, and plans of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.