With 72 hand-colored copper-engraved maps; plus frontispiece of principal mountains and rivers of the world; engraved pictorial title page. (Folio) 44x35 cm. (17¼x13¾"), rebound in three-quarter faux leather using the original marbled boards and the original gilt-lettered leather cover label.

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. Includes a map of Oregon and Upper California not called for in the table of contents. [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.’”