[America] Buchon, J. Atlas géographique, statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Amériques

et des Îles adjacentes; traduit de l'atlas exécuté en Amérique d'après Lesage, avec de nombreuses corrections et augmentations. Paris, J. Carez, Verdière; Bossange, 1825. Letterpress title, dedication (2 p.), index (1-p.) and 21 p. of text (accompanying individual maps, most numb. as "bis", incl. new constitutions of var. countries), w. engr. title-vignette, 50 (of 51) double-p. handcol. engr. maps within extensive letterpress textborders, 2 double-p. handcol. letterpress tables, 2 double-p. plates (1x handcol.), later hmor., gilt and ribbed spine, large folio. Lacks the second map. Occas. browning, map 20 (N.Y.) loose. Otherwise a very fine, well-bound copy, apparently the first reissue of an American atlas. Phillips 1176.

The most important maps are: IV (Russian America); VI (U.S. incl. Texas); VIII (U.S., w. each state indicating date and manner of admission to the Union); XXV (Washington and the District of Columbia); XLII (Mexico, with history and Constitution of 4 Oct. 1824; XLIII (Guatemala with history); XLV (Caribbean Islands, with history); XLVIII (Haiti with history and Constitution of 1806); LIV (misnumb. LVI) (Colombia incl. Equador and Venezuela, with Constitution of 30 October 1821).