Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc.... Author: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1860 Description: [2], 75 leaves, 26 pp With 76 total hand-colored maps and plans including insets (4 are double-page); all on 43 map-sheets. (Folio) 38.5x32 cm (15¼x12½"), period half-morocco and black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Mitchell’s complete, pre-Civil War, 1860 atlas, with 31 of the maps pertaining to the United States. Full-page maps of: Maine, New York and Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Texas, California, etc. Double-page maps include: The World; United States; New York with New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; Mexico, Central America and West Indies. List of the U.S. post offices and populations, mountains and rivers, all in the back. Phillips Atlases 831. Laid in is a bookseller's letter dated August 3, 1882. Lot Amendments Condition: Chips at spine ends with one remnant lifting, scuffs and stains to cloth and leather, joints starting; hinges starting, leaves toned, some stains; about very good. Item number: 294756
Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc.... Author: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1860 Description: [2], 75 leaves, 26 pp With 76 total hand-colored maps and plans including insets (4 are double-page); all on 43 map-sheets. (Folio) 38.5x32 cm (15¼x12½"), period half-morocco and black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Mitchell’s complete, pre-Civil War, 1860 atlas, with 31 of the maps pertaining to the United States. Full-page maps of: Maine, New York and Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Texas, California, etc. Double-page maps include: The World; United States; New York with New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; Mexico, Central America and West Indies. List of the U.S. post offices and populations, mountains and rivers, all in the back. Phillips Atlases 831. Laid in is a bookseller's letter dated August 3, 1882. Lot Amendments Condition: Chips at spine ends with one remnant lifting, scuffs and stains to cloth and leather, joints starting; hinges starting, leaves toned, some stains; about very good. Item number: 294756
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