THE DIAMOND ATLAS ... THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

New York: Morse and Gaston, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing here and there, but maps mostly very clean. Leather from spine lacking; front cover holding by one cord. Good. Small square quarto (6-1/4" x 7-1/4") in original publisher's binding of full red morocco leather with heavy gilt decorations; 239 pages. Illustrated with 55 hand-colored maps and charts, mostly full page and including double-page maps of the world and of the United States, all printed on one side only and mostly of the United States.