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263 - [Americana]. MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus

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€600 - 800

Sale fees

30%

[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, &c. Comprehended in seventy five sheets, forming a series of One Hundred and Twenty Two Maps Plans and Sections. Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1851. Petit in-folio, titre, table des cartes et 74 cartes en couleurs. Demi-basane maroquinée rouge à coins soulignée d’un filet doré aux plats, dos lisse (reliure frottée, mors usé, coiffes et coins frottés, qques rousseurs disséminées, légère oxydation générale du papier). Atlas américain et général du XIXe, très recherché. Complet des 74 grandes cartes, gravées sur acier en noir et aquarellées. Très beau titre chromolithographié avec une grande vignette. La planche 74, Heights of Mountains and Lengths of Rivers, est reliée en frontispice. Contient la mappemonde et la grande planche dépliante, New Map of the United States of America, impressionnante carte des Etats-Unis de Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, montrant des configurations territoriales assez récentes, ainsi que des routes historiquement importantes dans l'Ouest. Cartes des Etats. Cette édition du Nouvel Atlas universel de Mitchell est à la date de copyright de 1850. Mitchell publia l'atlas jusqu'aux années 1850, date à laquelle il vendit les droits d'auteur à Cowperthwait & Co qui publia ensuite l'atlas jusqu'au milieu des années 1850.

Auction details

Livres Voyage, atlas et cartographie
Friday, November 20
02:00 PM
22, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Gros & Delettrez +33 1 47 70 83 04 j.remaut@gros-delettrez.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 280,000 lots published

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