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Samuel Augustus Mitchell (engraver) - Holland and Belgium. (19th Century Map)

Title: Holland and Belgium. (19th Century Map)
Description: Philadelphia: Mitchell's New Universal Atlas, [1849]. 17 x 14 inches. Very Good. Some foxing. 19th Century, full color atlas map. From page 50 of Mitchell's 1850 edition of the New Universal Atlas. This was one of the earliest editions of Mitchell's atlas, rarer and generally considered more desirable among collectors of his maps and atlases. Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his son and successor, S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. were successful Philadelphia-based map publishers. The Mitchell family’s famous annual atlas, the New Universal Atlas, was first published by Henry Tanner starting in 1836. Mitchell published it under his own name starting in 1846, and he continued publishing it until 1849. In 1850, the copyright to Mitchell’s atlas was first acquired by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. and then in 1856 by Charles DeSilver, both Philadelphia publishers. Thomas, Cowperthwait added five maps for their 1853 edition. DeSilver still owned the copyright in 1859, when another edition came out published by Cushings & Bailey, Baltimore, which added 23 more maps. In 1860, when S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. succeeded his father, the Mitchells published the atlas again, and the name of the atlas was changed to the New General Atlas. .

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Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 18-1014

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