Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Sixty-Three Quarto Maps, Forming a Series of One Hundred Maps and Plans, Together with Valuable Statistical Tables.

S. Augustus Mitchell

Published by Philadelphia, 1871

About this Item

96 hand-coloured maps on 70 sheets, followed by 27, [4] p. 40 cm. Respined. Original cloth with gold lettering, blank impressing, leather corners. Corners bumped, cloth stained and rubbed. Dent in top front edge. Some wear to gold print on new spine label. New endpapers. Pages soiled and thumbed. Tear in map of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes full-page city maps of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St Louis and New Orleans. The atlas concentrates on America for Americans but includes highlights from the rest of the world. Being 1871, it includes the Argentine Confederation, Prussia and the German States, Persia, Beloochistan, Hindoostan, Farther India, and the Sandwich Islands. At rear is a reference table, followed by tables of population, governments, distances, mountains, and rivers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, Etc., Embraced in Sixty-Three Quarto Maps, Forming a Series of One Hundred Maps and Plans, Together with Valuable Statistical Tables.
• Publisher: Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare & Antiquarian