Cover: Carey's American pocket atlas. / Carey, Mathew / 1796

Cover: Carey's American pocket atlas. Carey, Mathew, 1796

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Full Title: (Covers to) Carey's American Pocket Atlas; Containing The Following Maps... With A Concise Description Of Each State. Philadelphia: Printed For Mathew Carey, By Lang and Ustick, 1796.

Author: Carey, Mathew

Date: 1796

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Author: Carey, Mathew

Date: 1796

Short Title: Cover: Carey's American pocket atlas.

Publisher: Philadelphia: Lang and Ustick

Type: Covers

Object Height cm: 16

Object Width cm: 11

Country: United States

Full Title: (Covers to) Carey's American Pocket Atlas; Containing The Following Maps... With A Concise Description Of Each State. Philadelphia: Printed For Mathew Carey, By Lang and Ustick, 1796.

List No: 4865A

Series No: 1

Published In: Carey's American Pocket Atlas; Containing The Following Maps... With A Concise Description Of Each State. Philadelphia: Printed For Mathew Carey, By Lang and Ustick, 1796.

Publication Author: Carey, Mathew

Publication Date: 1796

Publication Reference: P1364.

Publication Note: The first edition of this atlas. Later editions were 1801, 1805, 1813, and 1814. The same maps appeared in other Carey atlases, primarily Carey's Minor American Atlas (1802, 1810) and the Carey and Warner General Atlas of 1814 and 1816 (see our #4864).

Publication List No: 4865.000

Publication Type: National Atlas

Publication Maps: 19

Publication Height cm: 16

Publication Width cm: 11

Image No: 4865A

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