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"COUNTY MAP OF THE STATES OF IOWA & MISSOURI "
By Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.
from
" Mitchell's New General Atlas "
Published Pennsylvania 1861
A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s map of these two states . Highly detailed showing the extent of the early Rail Roads.
The map is encased by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865. This is plate 40 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas.
Dated and credited in the plate as follows,
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
Light marginal marking otherwise fine condition and blank verso. Bright, vibrant hand colouring.
Measuring approx. 14" x 11.5" (360mm x 295mm) printed area only with margins beyond.
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Cartographer
For over 50 years, Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his successors and son were one of the most prominent publishers of maps and atlases in the United States. Samuel Augustus Mitchell Senior began his map publishing career in the early1830s. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers H. S. Tanner and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell teamed up with printer Cowperthwait & Company to produce the Mitchell’s Universal Atlas and the Mitchell’s General Atlas. In the late 1850s most of the Mitchell copyrights were bought by Desilver and Co. who continued to publish his maps, until Mitchell’s son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, purchased most of the copyrights back from Desilver and, from 1860 on, published his own New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father and published atlases well into the late 1880s when most of the copyrights were again sold.
A GENUINE ANTIQUE MAP GUARANTEED OVER 150 YEARS OLD FROM LINDISFARNE PRINTS
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