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Title: A 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 five sheets and forming a series of One Hundred and Twenty Two Maps, Plans and Sections Author: Mitchell, [Samuel Augustus] Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Date: 1851 Description: With 71 (of 73) hand-colored copper-engraved maps plus insets (1 is double-page); a hand-colored copper-engraved frontispiece of mountains and rivers; and a chromolithographed pictorial title page; chromolithographed decorative borders and lettering on Table of Contents page. (Folio) 17¼x13½, original half red morocco and mottled boards, gilt-tooled and lettered red morocco cover label. Contains 33 maps of the United States, including the various states, many with insets of cities, and a double-page map of the U.S. Separate plans of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington DC; plus other full-page maps of South America and its regions, Europe and its various states, Asia, Africa, Oceana, and etc. Lacking the map of England & Wales, and the map of Scotland. Phillips Atlases 805. Lot Amendments Condition: Front cover detached, spine peeling, chipped and nearly completely absent from text block, heavily worn covers; frontispiece with large chips and tears, title page with chipping, tearing, darkening and finger soiling, table of contents with chip and finger soiling, maps with mild to moderate chipping to edges, mostly fore edge from handling, plus mild to moderate mostly marginal finger or other soiling, a few maps with quite long closed tears; good. Item number: 221796