MITCHELL S AUGUSTUS Mitchells New General Atlas

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MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS. Mitchell's New General Atlas. Profusion of hand-colored engraved mapsheets [complete]. Small folio, publisher's 1/2 morocco, leather quite rubbed; internally quite bright and clean. Philadelphia: Mitchell, Jr., 1860

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First Edition, first issue, of the first atlas published by Mitchell, Jr. This issue is distinguished by the lack of the New Orleans map between maps 28 and 29. The New Orleans map appeared in the second issue of the 1860 edition. There were also changes between the issues in the style of numbering and in the globular world projection. Rumsey 565.