MITCHELL SAMUEL AUGUSTUS Maps of Maine New Hampshire and Ver

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MITCHELL, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS. Maps of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Massachusetts & Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New York City [cover title]. 6 lithographed maps, principally printed in orange and blue. Folio, 445x365 mm, original wrappers, few chips at edges, two recent staples along left edge to hold the atlas together; final map with chip along fore-edge (just entering image at neat line). Philadelphia, 1846

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Extremely uncommon and lucky to have survived given the materials used in its production. All the maps have copyright imprints dated respectively 1835, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1849, 1840. Apparently Mitchell was experimenting with new forms of printing maps and issued this atlas to see how popular it might be. It apparently did not sell well for there are no other examples of Mitchell (or his successors) publishing again these 6 or other maps using this new 2-color lithograph process. Rumsey 536.