Accompaniment Mitchells Reference Distance Map by Mitchell Samuel, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. First Edition. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards; 342 pages. Population and census data by county. Early bookplate on front pastedown and signature on front endpaper of John F. Fager of Harrisburg. Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks. A New American Atlas, published in 1831, was his first work. Then, in 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas, and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850, when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwaite & Co. of Philadelphia, who continued to publish it until the mid-1850s, when It was purchased by Charles DeSilver. Lacks, as usual, the scarce accompanying map. Very Good.

1st edition (Howes M-684; Sabin 49715). 324 pp. 12mo, in 6s. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" General wear & rubbing to binding. Publisher's blue advert bookplate to front paste-down, with prior owner signature above. Paper browned, with faint tide-line in text-block lower margin. Withal, a square & tight VG copy. Period brown half sheep binding with blue marbled paper boards.

Hardcover. First Edition. 324pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gold. With the Mitchell and Hinman advertisement bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Light wear to extremities and rubbing to covers, old stain affecting upper edge of roughly a hundred leaves. About very good. Howes M684. Sabin 49715. ; Octavo.

hardcover. Condition: good. First. 324pp. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 calf, spine ends and edges of corners worn, calf rubbed, light foxing throughout. Philadelphia: Mitchell and Hinman, 1834. First Edition. (The map itself is not present). Howes M-684.