One of the Rarest of the Early American Atlases -- In Lucas's Characteristic Very Attractive Hand-Color.
Folio. Red sheepskin, each cover with elaborate broad borders of varying gilt and blind roll tools (recased utilizing original backstrip).
Lucas's Atlas is essentially four atlases in one; it begins with a historical atlas, then a world atlas, atlas of the United States, and ends with a very good section on the Caribbean and South America.
The atlas includes the following maps:
- Comparative Height of the Principal Mountains... in the World.
- Comparative Height of Mountains &c.
- Comparative Lengths of the Principal Rivers throughout the World
- Orbis Veteribus Notus.
- Orbis Romani Pars Occidentalis.
- Orbis Romani Pars Orientalis.
- Graecia Antiqua
- Palestine
- Alexandri Magni Itinera
- Aegyptus Antiqua
- Western Hemspere [and] Eastern Hemisphere
- Mercator's Chart
- Europe
- England and Wales
- Scotland
- Ireland
- Sweden and Norway
- Denmark
- Russian Empire
- Poland
- Holland
- Netherlands
- France
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Hungary, Transylvania
- Prussia
- Spain and Portugal
- Italy
- Turkey in Europe
- Azore Ids
- Asia
- Turkey in Asia
- Hindoostan
- China
- Tartary
- Persia
- Africa
- Egypt
- Madeira Ids
- Canary Ids.
- Cape Verd Ids.
- North America
- Canada
- United States
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Vermont
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Maryland [with] City of Baltimore
- Virignia
- Nth. Carolina
- Sth. Carolina
- Georgia
- Ohio
- Kentucky
- Tennessee
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Louisiana
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Missouri
- Arkansas Ter
- Michigan Ter
- Florida
- Mexico
- West Indies
- Bermudas
- Bahama's
- Cuba
- Jamaica
- Hayti or Saint Domingo
- Porto Rico
- Virgin Islands & c
- St. Christophers
- Nevis
- Antigua
- Guadaloupe & c.
- Dominica
- Martinico
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent
- Barbadoes
- Grenada
- Tobago
- Trinidad
- Curacao
- South America
- Colombia
- Brazil
- Peru
- United Provinces
- Chili
Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854) was a prominent American cartographer, engraver, artist, and public figure during the first half of the 19th century.
Lucas was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and moved to Philadelphia as a teenager, before settling in Baltimore. There he launched a successful cartographic career. Lucas's first atlas was announced in early- to mid-1812, with production taking place between September 1812 and December of 1813, by which point the engravings were complete. Bound copies of the atlas -- A new and elegant general atlas: Containing maps of each of the United States -- were available early in the next year, beating Carey to market by about two months. Lucas later published A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the known Countries in the World in the early 1820s.