Texas State Archives Map Collection



Carey's General Atlas, Improved and Enlarged: Being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters, Their Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & c.
Date: 1815
Publisher: Published by Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, 1815.
Cartographer: Carey, Matthew (pub.)
Scale: varying
Size: 43 cm x 29 cm
Type of Map: general
Format: color, engraved, lithographed, printed
Language: English
AC Number: 07042
Photo Media: -- None Listed --

Carey's General Atlas, Improved and Enlarged: Being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters, Their Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & c. Image:
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Description:
Atlas. Consists of maps by Samuel Lewis and others, generally showing continents, bodies of water, islands, countries, states, provinces and other territories, counties, roads, mountains and other topographic features, cities, towns, forts, Indian tribes and villages, and routes of explorers expeditions. A table of contents and prefatory remarks precede the maps. Some plates are not numbered. One plate is missing. A list of maps is attached. Map 7039 is an 1814 edition of this atlas. This atlas is too brittle to photocopy. 12/28/87

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