[Morse, Sidney E.]

The cerographic missionary atlas [wrapper title]

[New York]: Sidney E. Morse & Co., gratuitously and exclusively for the subscribers to the New York Observer, [1848]. Large, oblong 4to, 18 leaves, each with a full-page map; several bound in upside down, as issued; original printed brown wrappers; a few chips around the edges and mild dampstains; all else very good. Offered as a supplement to the New York Observer, a Presbyterian newspaper which ran from 1829 to 1912. It includes maps of both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, South Africa, West Africa (nos. I and II), Greenland and Labrador, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Country of the Nestorians (i.e. southern Iraq), Northern India, Western India, Southern India (including Ceylon), Bengal, Siam (including Burma), China, Indian Territory (showing Minnesota Territory, Texas and east from Lake Superior and the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains in the west, noting Indian tribes, forts and settlements) plus a map of the Hawaiian Islands (sometimes missing). "The maps show ... missionary settlements throughout America and the world" (Rumsey). Cerography or wax engraving was an invention by Sidney Morse and Henry A. Munsen in 1834, specifically for the engraving of maps. Phillips 182; Rumsey 4685.001. Item #60701

Price: $1,250.00