The Moravian Atlas, embracing Statistics of the Church of the United Brethren in her Home and Foreign Departments

Worldwide Moravian Brotherhood Missions. - "Teachers of the FULNECK Academy" (compilors).

The Moravian Atlas , embracing Statistics of the Church of the United Brethren in her Home and Foreign Departments, compiled from the most recent and authentic sources.

Place of publication, publishers, date: [No place given, but slip at front mentions A. Smith and B. Harvey of Fulneck, near Leeds]: 1853.

Small oblong 4to (4 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches; 185 x 220mm). Pp. [i-]iv, 5-36 + 1 small format slip soliciting subscriptions at front + one small format errata slip at the rear. 12 lithographic maps by Augustus Peterman (and others?), including 1 hand-coloured world map, 11 other hand-tinted maps. (Some light toning, spotting and offsetting). original green cloth, covers panelled in blind, the upper cover blocked in gilt with title, brown toned endpapers (stitching weak, some scuffing to extremities, endpapers spotted).

An interesting and informative text on Moravian establishments and missions around the world, together with a fine series of maps by an important figure in the development  of cartography in Great Britain in the second part of the 19th century. The 'Atlas....' is very rare: Goodspeed's of Boston had a copy for sale in 1932, but  there are no other records of a copy for sale or at auction. OCLC lists 6 copies in institutions worldwide.

The maps include a world map; the United States and Canada; South Africa; South-East Australia, and  various Caribbean locations. The text includes a 2pp. 'List of Untimely Deaths of Missionaries' since 1735, giving names, cause and place of death.

W. Gunn Malin Catalogue of Books relating to ... Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren [Phila.: 1881], p.111; OCLC 16843871; Phillips Atlases I, 180; Rumsey 1868 (incorrectly titled 'Moravia Atlas).