Dec 14, 2006 - Sale 2098

Sale 2098 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS. Mitchell's School Atlas [from the cover]. 14 hand-colored engraved mapsheets (with 18 maps), 6 pages of tables. 4to, 300x240 mm, publisher's morocco-backed pictorial boards, head of spine perished; maps bright and clean. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1839

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Texas is shown as an independent Republic with a long panhandle reaching the area of modern day Colorado. It is shown as an independent country by coloring on the map of North America, map of Mexico and map of the United States and Texas. The map of the United States shows only the States of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana west of the Mississippi. The rest of the area is split into Territories - Oregon, Missouri, Indian, and Iowa. A beautiful collection of maps showing the United States just before the annexation of Texas. Rumsey 531.