MITCHELL, S. Augustus (1792-1868). Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with Regions Adjoining . Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 12 o (127 x 79 mm). 46 pages. Large hand-colored folding map: "A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California" (570 x 528 mm). (Some pale marginal dampstaining to text.) Publisher's embossed leather, title in gilt on upper cover; brown quarter morocco slipcase. A FINE COPY OF MITCHELL'S POPULAR MAP, ONE OF THE FIRST TO SHOW TEXAS AS A STATE. The map was issued both as an inset in Mitchell's wall map entitled "Reference and Distance Map of the United States" and as a separate pocket map. It was published on the eve of the Mexican War and is one of the first maps to show Texas as a state. "After several years as an independent republic, the establishment of Texas statehood became the key motivation for the war. The boundaries of the new state are extravagantly conceived on the map, with claimed land reaching the upper Rio Grande as far west as Santa Fe" (Cohen, Mapping the West p. 134). Cohen notes that in 1846 Brigham Young requested "one half dozen of Mitchell's new map of Texas, Oregon and California"; the map was considered the best of the time and, according to Cohen, it "defined the American public's view of the country's changing geography" (ibid). The map shows the western portion of the U.S. to the Pacific, with the Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region on the verge of the Mexican War. Texas is elaborately depicted with the Rio Grande as its southern border. Oregon is shown to extend to 54 o 40". The Santa Fe and Oregon Trail are both detailed, the latter with a table of distances published in the lower corner. Cowan p. 443; Howes M-685; Martin & Martin 36; Phillips Maps p. 844; Sabin 49714; Streeter IV:2511; Wagner-Camp-Becker 122b; Wheat Maps of the Gold Regions 29.
MITCHELL, S. Augustus (1792-1868). Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with Regions Adjoining . Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. 12 o (127 x 79 mm). 46 pages. Large hand-colored folding map: "A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California" (570 x 528 mm). (Some pale marginal dampstaining to text.) Publisher's embossed leather, title in gilt on upper cover; brown quarter morocco slipcase. A FINE COPY OF MITCHELL'S POPULAR MAP, ONE OF THE FIRST TO SHOW TEXAS AS A STATE. The map was issued both as an inset in Mitchell's wall map entitled "Reference and Distance Map of the United States" and as a separate pocket map. It was published on the eve of the Mexican War and is one of the first maps to show Texas as a state. "After several years as an independent republic, the establishment of Texas statehood became the key motivation for the war. The boundaries of the new state are extravagantly conceived on the map, with claimed land reaching the upper Rio Grande as far west as Santa Fe" (Cohen, Mapping the West p. 134). Cohen notes that in 1846 Brigham Young requested "one half dozen of Mitchell's new map of Texas, Oregon and California"; the map was considered the best of the time and, according to Cohen, it "defined the American public's view of the country's changing geography" (ibid). The map shows the western portion of the U.S. to the Pacific, with the Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region on the verge of the Mexican War. Texas is elaborately depicted with the Rio Grande as its southern border. Oregon is shown to extend to 54 o 40". The Santa Fe and Oregon Trail are both detailed, the latter with a table of distances published in the lower corner. Cowan p. 443; Howes M-685; Martin & Martin 36; Phillips Maps p. 844; Sabin 49714; Streeter IV:2511; Wagner-Camp-Becker 122b; Wheat Maps of the Gold Regions 29.
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