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Sale 466: Travel - Natural History - Medicine - Cartography (#466) 11/03/2011 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #5 A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World...

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$2,000

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Heading:

(Atlas)

Title:

A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World...

Author:

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

Place Published:

Philadelphia

Publisher:

Thomas Cowperthwait

Date Published:

1853

Description:

Chromolithograph title page and table of contents, plus 73 mapsheets. (Folio) 43.3x35 cm. (17x13¾"), period half-morocco, front cover with gilt leather label.

Cowperthwait's edition after Mitchell's Atlas, with the maps copyrighted by Cowperthwait, mostly in 1850. A very nice copy, with many maps in bright and fine condition, including the one of California and territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah & New Mexico.

Condition:

Spine lacking, covers detached and worn at edges; chipping to edges of title and table of contents, some darkening, yellowing, or offsetting to plates, mostly at edges, mostly mild; else very good.

Item#:

225817

Headline:

Mitchell's A New Universal Atlas 1853
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