Title: New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of Cities &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and forming a series of One Hundred and Seventeen Maps, Plans and Sections Author: Mitchell, S. Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1849 Description: With 73 hand-colored copper-engraved maps, engraved pictorial title page, plus table of contents. (Folio) 44x36 cm (17½x14") original half red morocco and marbled boards, red morocco cover label lettered and decorated in gilt. Plate 73 "Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World" is bound in as frontispiece. Mitchell’s important and rare New Universal Atlas of H.S. Tanner, without Tanner’s name mentioned on the front cover or title page. Contains a number of significant maps: North America with Texas shown as part of the United States (California and southwest still part of Mexico); a separate map of Texas (the 1845 map of C.S. Williams); the various states of the U.S., many with insets of cities, etc.; separate plans of New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC; Mexico and Guatemala map attributed to H.N. Burroughs; plus South America and its regions, Europe and its various states, Asia, Africa, and etc. Phillips notes: “Many maps bear the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell, and the copyright notice of H. N. Burroughs, or of H. S. Tanner. This atlas is a reissue of Tanner’s New Universal Atlas which continued to be published for some years as Mitchell’s New Universal Atlas, without reference to Tanner. Lot Amendments Condition: Front cover and spine detached from text block, rubbing and wear to binding; name in ink dated 1849 and some mild soiling to front free endpaper, mild marginal toning or finger soiling scattered within; very good. Item number: 241862
Title: New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of Cities &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and forming a series of One Hundred and Seventeen Maps, Plans and Sections Author: Mitchell, S. Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1849 Description: With 73 hand-colored copper-engraved maps, engraved pictorial title page, plus table of contents. (Folio) 44x36 cm (17½x14") original half red morocco and marbled boards, red morocco cover label lettered and decorated in gilt. Plate 73 "Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World" is bound in as frontispiece. Mitchell’s important and rare New Universal Atlas of H.S. Tanner, without Tanner’s name mentioned on the front cover or title page. Contains a number of significant maps: North America with Texas shown as part of the United States (California and southwest still part of Mexico); a separate map of Texas (the 1845 map of C.S. Williams); the various states of the U.S., many with insets of cities, etc.; separate plans of New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC; Mexico and Guatemala map attributed to H.N. Burroughs; plus South America and its regions, Europe and its various states, Asia, Africa, and etc. Phillips notes: “Many maps bear the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell, and the copyright notice of H. N. Burroughs, or of H. S. Tanner. This atlas is a reissue of Tanner’s New Universal Atlas which continued to be published for some years as Mitchell’s New Universal Atlas, without reference to Tanner. Lot Amendments Condition: Front cover and spine detached from text block, rubbing and wear to binding; name in ink dated 1849 and some mild soiling to front free endpaper, mild marginal toning or finger soiling scattered within; very good. Item number: 241862
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