Publication Date: 1850
Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Map
Very good condition. Overall toning and minor offsetting. Blank on verso. Size 15 x 12 Inches. An extremely attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.'s 1853 map of Mississippi. Depicts the entire state color coded according to individual counties. Shows canals and roads with notations regarding steamboat and overland mileage. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 23 in the 1853 edition of his New Universal Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, 'Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., in the Clerks office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. References: Rumsey 0537.024 (1847 edition). Phillips (Atlases) 6102-23.
Publication Date: 1849
Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Map
Very good condition. Extremely minor foxing to marginal areas. Wide margins. Blank on verso. Size 12 x 14 Inches. This hand colored map is a copper plate engraving, dating to 1849 by the legendary American Mapmaker S.A. Mitchell, the elder. It represents Mississippi. This historically important map is extremely rare as it existed only in the 1849 edition of the Mitchell's Universal Atlas. This map also contains notes on steamboat routes to New Orleans and to Pittsburg.