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YOUNG, James H. Mitchell's Reference & Distance Map of the United States . Philaddelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1845 [revised to 1849]. Colour-printed engraved wall map on nine sheets joined, overall 1460 x 1820mm. Decorative engraved title, engraved vignette after W. Mason, inset maps 'A New Map of Texas Oregan and California with the Regions adjoining', 'North part of Maine', 'South Part of Florida', and inset details of the vicinities of Albany, Baltimore and Washington, Rochester, and the Niagara Falls, scale-bars, graticule borders, the whole map set within a decorative border. (Slightly discoloured, loss to green edging.) ONE OF THE FINEST GENERAL MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY. It was first issued in 1834, re-issued in 1845 with substantial revisions and a new copyright, and revised again in 1849. This map, like most maps made prior to the Mexican War, does not extend as far west as the Pacific, stopping near the Missouri Kansas border. The large inset map, Mitchell's celebrated map of 'Texas, Oregon, and California' is the first commercial map to show the discoveries of John Charles Frmont and includes Texas as a Republic and the revised new boundaries between the United States and British America, according to the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo (1848). The separately published issue of this important map appeared in 1846. Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 520; Martin and Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest , plate 36.