Dec 14, 2006 - Sale 2098

Sale 2098 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS. A New Universal Atlas . . . of the World. Engraved title, hand-colored frontispiece of mountains, 71 hand-colored engraved mapsheets. Folio, publisher's 1/2 roan, extremities worn, with the leather title label on cover, quite worn at edges; hinges starting, toning and foxing as usual, title-page a trifle stained along fore-edge. Philadelphia, 1847

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This copy with the map of California, which is only rarely found in Mitchell's atlases of 1847. It is the only map not numbered and is not listed in the table of contents.