Title: Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., embraced in fifty-three quarto maps, forming a series of eighty-four maps and plans, together with valuable statistical tables Author: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Published by S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1865 Description: [4] pp., 54 leaves containing 84 maps hand-colored lithographed maps, 31 pp. (folio) 39x31.5 cm (15¼x12½"), original half leather & gilt-lettered cloth. Four of the maps are double-page (the world; United States; States of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; and Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies). The first world map has a hand-colored time table on the verso. The majority of the maps pertain to the Americas with many maps and insets of United States cities, and county maps of the States. Provenance: Alta California Books, 8/73 Phillips Atlases 846. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear to binding, front cover stained; hinge cracked at front endpaper, which is creased; old marginal repair to one map, lower edge of U.S. map a bit frayed, very good, most maps fine. Item number: 271834
Title: Mitchell's New General Atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., embraced in fifty-three quarto maps, forming a series of eighty-four maps and plans, together with valuable statistical tables Author: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Published by S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1865 Description: [4] pp., 54 leaves containing 84 maps hand-colored lithographed maps, 31 pp. (folio) 39x31.5 cm (15¼x12½"), original half leather & gilt-lettered cloth. Four of the maps are double-page (the world; United States; States of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; and Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies). The first world map has a hand-colored time table on the verso. The majority of the maps pertain to the Americas with many maps and insets of United States cities, and county maps of the States. Provenance: Alta California Books, 8/73 Phillips Atlases 846. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear to binding, front cover stained; hinge cracked at front endpaper, which is creased; old marginal repair to one map, lower edge of U.S. map a bit frayed, very good, most maps fine. Item number: 271834
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