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Author: Mitchell, S. Augustus
Title: 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 sheets and forming a series of One Hundred and Seventeen Maps, Plans and Sections
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:S. Augustus Mitchell
Date Published: 1849
Description:

With 73 hand-colored copper-engraved maps, engraved pictorial title page, plus table of contents. (Folio) 44x36 cm (17½x14") later quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, newer endpapers.

Plate 73 "Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World" is bound in as frontispiece. Mitchell's important and rare 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 map attributed to H.N. Burroughs; 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, or of H. S. Tanner. 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.

Some wear to binding with areas of staining to boards and leather; toning and scattered foxing to interior, occasional small areas of wormholing to top margins not affecting maps, creasing to bottom corner of one map, offsetting to versos; very good.