Title: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Seventy-Nine Quarto Maps... Author: Mitchell, S[amuel] Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1875 Description: With 69 hand-colored maps (18 are double-page) on 62 map-sheets; plus several insets and a hand-colored Time-Table leaf. 15¼x12½, original half sheep and decoratively stamped cloth covers, lettered in gilt. Double-page maps include: The World on the mercator projection; The United States (with inset); States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; Plan of Boston; State of New York (with 5 insets); New York and Brooklyn (with inset); Pennsylvania; (with 4 insets); Plan of Philadelphia and Camden; Kentucky and Tennessee; Georgia and Alabama; Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana; Texas (with inset); Iowa and Missouri; Michigan and Wisconsin; Kansas and Nebraska; County Map of Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana; California (with San Francisco inset); Mexico, Central America and the West Indies (with insets). Most of the maps pertain to the Americas, chiefly of U.S. states and cities, such as: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minnesota, Maine, etc. Plus many world maps, including Cuba, Europe, England, Asia, Palestine, Oceanica, Africa, etc. List of the U.S. post offices and populations, and other statistical information in the back. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers heavily worn and detached; New York and Pennsylvania double-page maps are torn at center, one panel detached with some chipping and tearing at edges, a few other maps with some slight tearing, a few with pencil notes on verso; mostly very good with a few exceptions. Item number: 221821
Title: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Seventy-Nine Quarto Maps... Author: Mitchell, S[amuel] Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1875 Description: With 69 hand-colored maps (18 are double-page) on 62 map-sheets; plus several insets and a hand-colored Time-Table leaf. 15¼x12½, original half sheep and decoratively stamped cloth covers, lettered in gilt. Double-page maps include: The World on the mercator projection; The United States (with inset); States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; Plan of Boston; State of New York (with 5 insets); New York and Brooklyn (with inset); Pennsylvania; (with 4 insets); Plan of Philadelphia and Camden; Kentucky and Tennessee; Georgia and Alabama; Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana; Texas (with inset); Iowa and Missouri; Michigan and Wisconsin; Kansas and Nebraska; County Map of Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana; California (with San Francisco inset); Mexico, Central America and the West Indies (with insets). Most of the maps pertain to the Americas, chiefly of U.S. states and cities, such as: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minnesota, Maine, etc. Plus many world maps, including Cuba, Europe, England, Asia, Palestine, Oceanica, Africa, etc. List of the U.S. post offices and populations, and other statistical information in the back. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers heavily worn and detached; New York and Pennsylvania double-page maps are torn at center, one panel detached with some chipping and tearing at edges, a few other maps with some slight tearing, a few with pencil notes on verso; mostly very good with a few exceptions. Item number: 221821
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