263 - [Americana]. MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus

[Americana]. 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, etc. Comprising seventy-five sheets, forming a series of one hundred twenty-two maps, plans, and sections. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1851. Small folio, title page, table of maps, and 74 color maps. Red morocco-embossed half-leather with corner caps, accented by a gold fillet on the covers; smooth spine (binding rubbed, joints worn, cap and corners rubbed, a few scattered foxing spots, slight general oxidation of the paper). A 19th-century American and general atlas, highly sought after. Complete set of 74 large maps, engraved on steel in black and watercolored. Very beautiful chromolithographed title page with a large vignette. Plate 74, *Heights of Mountains and Lengths of Rivers*, is bound as a frontispiece. Includes the world map and the large fold-out plate, *New Map of the United States of America*, an impressive map of the United States by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, showing relatively recent territorial configurations as well as historically significant routes in the West. State maps. This edition of Mitchell’s New Universal Atlas bears a copyright date of 1850. Mitchell published the atlas until the 1850s, at which point he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co., which then published the atlas until the mid-1850s.