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Item Details
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| Heading: |
zzf(Atlas) |
| Author: |
Mitchell, S[amuel] Augustus |
| 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... |
| Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher: |
S. Augustus Mitchell |
| Date: |
1847 |
| Item # : |
213643 |
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| Sale Number |
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445 |
| Lot Number |
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200 |
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| Fine Americana: The Northwest Library of John M. McClelland, Jr. (with additions) - Maps & Atlases |
| Sale Date |
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01/20/2011 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2160 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| With 71 (of 72) hand-colored copper-engraved maps including frontispiece of principal mountains and rivers of the world; engraved pictorial title page. (Folio) 43.5x34.5 cm. (17¼x14"), original half red morocco and mottled boards, gilt-lettered leather cover label. |
| Mitchell’s re-issue of the New Universal Atlas of H.S. Tanner, without Tanner’s name mentioned on the front cover or title page. Contains a number of significant maps: North America with Texas shown as part of the United States (California and southwest still part of Mexico); a separate map of Texas (the 1845 map of C.S. Williams); the various states of the U.S., many with insets of cities, etc.; separate plans of New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC; Mexico and Guatemala; plus South America and its regions, Europe and its various states, Asia, Africa, and etc. Phillips notes: “Many maps bear the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell, and the copyright notice of H. N. Burroughs... This atlas is a reissue of Tanner’s New Universal Atlas which continued to be published for some years as Mitchell’s New Universal Atlas, without reference to Tanner. [Plate] No. 72, Lengths of the principal rivers in the world [and] Heights of the principal mountains...is bound as [the] frontispiece. The engraved title page has a vignette, ‘First landing of Columbus in the New World.’” Phillips Atlases 797. |
| Condition: |
| Lacking map 51, Sweden and Norway. Disbound, covers worn, stained, endpapers mildew-stained; maps with some mostly marginal darkening and dampstaining, most maps very good, sold as is. |
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