MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus. - Lot 270

MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus. 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. Comprehended in seventy five sheets, forming a series of One Hundred and Twenty Two Maps Plans and Sections. Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1851. Small folio, title, table of maps and 74 colored maps. Red half morocco with corners, gilt fillet to boards, smooth spine (binding rubbed, spinebone worn, headbands and corners rubbed, some scattered foxing, slight general oxidation of paper). A highly sought-after 19th-century American and general atlas. Complete with 74 large maps, steel-engraved in black and watercolored. Beautiful chromolithographed title with large vignette. Plate 74, Heights of Mountains and Lengths of Rivers, is bound as a frontispiece. Contains the world map and the large folding plate, New Map of the United States of America, an impressive map of the United States by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, showing fairly recent territorial configurations, as well as historically important roads in the West. State maps. This edition of Mitchell's New Universal Atlas has a copyright date of 1850. Mitchell published the atlas until the 1850s, when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co, who then published the atlas until the mid-1850s.