Mitchells new general atlas (20 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. In 1860, Augustus Mitchell Jr. printed one of theworld's most accurate and artistic atlases. This reproduction of Mitchell'sNew General Atlas restores all 76 maps from the original plus its 26 pagesof geological, statistical, and geographic information from 1860. Included are intriguinglooks at the political boundaries of the United States at the outbreak of theCivil War, as well as maps of other countries and regions that look vastlydifferent today. In the nineteenth century, American citizens would routinelypurchase a new map or atlas every year or two, as these physical documents werethe only way to learn geography. Thebeautiful floral-bordered maps in this atlas were designed by the finest cartographers ofthis pivotal era in human history. Engraved on steel plates, printed in black andwhite, and hand-colored by artists, they continue to inspire wonder and awe. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 128 pages. 14.20x12.10x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Large 4to. 128pp. Original half-leather over cloth boards, heavily gilt. Coloured maps. A fine, as new, copy of a handsome production. Facsimile of 1860 atlas of American maps.

Half Leather. Zustand: Very Good binding. Revised and Expanded Edition. Folio; half leather over green cloth; with titling on the upper board in gilt; complete with a series of one hundred and twelve maps and plans over 75 leaves; some wear to boards and some tears to the edge of the cloth. ~~Samuel Mitchell, Jr. took over the map publishing business from his father in 1860 and in that year issued the first of The New General Atlases. Mitchell printed expanded and revised versions up until 1887. The hand-colored maps in this 1874 edition are lovely, with little toning or foxing. Very Good binding.…

[American World Atlas] ORIGINAL COLOURED MAPS. Large quarto (40 x 32cm), with 123 pages of coloured maps, and 46 pages of text at rear. A map of South Africa loosely inserted at rear. Original embossed dark brown cloth over boards, with gilt titles to upper, recently re-backed in brown calf with gilt titles to burgundy morocco label. All edges red. Some gentle spotting to title page, otherwise internally clean. Light general wear to boards, restored to a robust, attractive condition.…

Leather-bound. Zustand: Very Good. Folio. 40 cm. 15 3/4 in. x 13 in. Contemporary brown textured cloth. Rebacked (spine and corners) in brown half-morocco, with borders of gilt roll. Original boards somewhat scuffed, rubbed and stained, but the entire refurbishing has yielded a very handsome and serviceable volume with many lovely colored maps. Title embossed to top board, in gilt with copper-tone highlights. Green gold-vein endpapers, probably replacements. Eighty-Four colored maps, including three double maps. Some age-toning to endpapers and map margins -- overall very readable and useable! Maps include many groups of U.S. States and Territories, and plans of U.S. Cities. Also maps of Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward's Islands, Halifax, Montreal;, Mexico, Central America and West Indies, Cuba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Panama Railroad, South America, Proposed Atrato Canal; New Grenada, Venezuela, Guiana; Equador and Peru; Argentine Confederation; Brazil Chili (& Island of Juan Fernandez); Europe; Russia in Europe, Norway and Sweden; Denmark; Holland and Belgium; France, Spain, and Portugal; Switzerland; England and Wales; Scotland (& Shetland Islands); Ireland; Prussia and the German States; Austria, Italy, Turkey in Europe,and Greece; Maltese Islands; Asia; Persia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan; Palestine, or The Holy Land; Hindoostan, Farther India, China, and Thibet; Oceanica; Sandwich Islands; Africa; Island of St. Helena; Harbors. Also The World - Eastern and Westernb Hemispheres; The World - Mercator's Projection; North America. Statistical Information at rear includes: (Complete) LIST OF POST OFFICES IN THE UNITED STATES; POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES by the Census of 1850 and 1860; LIST OF SLAVE STATES AND THEIR POPULATIONS IN BOTH 1850 AND 1860; Table of (Foreign) POPULATION AND GOVERNMENTS; TABLE OF DISTANCES (ROUTES TO AND FROM FOREIGN PORTS AND CITIES; LAND ROUTES TO PLACES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES; MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD; RIVERS OF THE WORLD. A beautiful, restored and VERY sturdy Atlas from 1863.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. 12 x 16 in. Elephant folio. Half brown leather with brown cloth boards. 80 maps, all hand-colored. Maps of all US states of the time, with world maps and foreign maps. Plans of New York, Boston, New Orleans, Philadelphia and more, some double pg maps. Beautifully and richly colored. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers have surface wear and scuffing. Binding tight. Text and large index have foxing but plates do not - all plates are vivid and clean. Index has a water stain in left corner, again, plates do not. Pink endpapers. Ffep has a large, hand-painted name, dated 1862, Lowell, MA. A copy that's a bit rough on the outside, very fine within. Extra shipping may apply. Ref. RGR.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 96 hand-coloured maps on 70 sheets, followed by 27, [4] p. 40 cm. Respined. Original cloth with gold lettering, blank impressing, leather corners. Corners bumped, cloth stained and rubbed. Dent in top front edge. Some wear to gold print on new spine label. New endpapers. Pages soiled and thumbed. Tear in map of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes full-page city maps of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St Louis and New Orleans. The atlas concentrates on America for Americans but includes highlights from the rest of the world. Being 1871, it includes the Argentine Confederation, Prussia and the German States, Persia, Beloochistan, Hindoostan, Farther India, and the Sandwich Islands. At rear is a reference table, followed by tables of population, governments, distances, mountains, and rivers. …

folio. [ff. 17]. 91 hand-coloured lithographed maps & plans with decorative borders on 58 sheets (5 double-page). 1 hand-coloured time-table on verso of double-hemisphere map. original half calf over blind & gilt-stamped cloth (binding worn & calf oxidized, covers detached, the maps themselves in very good condition). Fifty of the maps (3 double-page, 15 inset) are devoted to Canada and the United States. Included are full-page plans of the cities of Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New Orleans, Cincinnati & Chicago. cfPhillips, Atlases, 3558.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Folio in three quarter dark brown leather over original brown cloth ornately decorated in black and gilt. Complete with all color tinted maps and city plans plus at rear 37 pp. reference table consisting of "Post Offices on The United States and Territories Alphabetically Arranged in States Forming A List of the Cities, Towns And Villages, With Their Locations", "Official Census of Canada--1871", "Population of the United States by the Census of 1860 and 1870", "Table Population, Governmets, &c.", "Table Of Distances" , "Mountains of the World", "Rivers of the World', "Population of the Principal Cities, Towns, and Villages of the United States in 1879", and "Table Showing the Relative Rank of the States in Population during each Decade from 1776 to 1876". A tight example though with front hinge starting. crease to the ffep, wear to the leather tips and running to the spine strip with an aprox 3/4" loss to the foot of the spine. Front hinge starting. Internally clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small folio, unpaginated. Original publisher's half calf and gilt-lettered pebbled cloth binding. A very good copy with wear to the leather, the title page and list of maps foxed and with occasional mild soiling to the margins of plates, but strong joints and hinges, with an attractive 19th Century American bookplate. A desirable example of this Civil War-era atlas. Excellent original hand-coloring for all maps. This copy is complete with all 80 maps plus two additional maps not called for: "New Hampshire and Vermont" and "County Map of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island." Among the more notable American maps are those detailing Texas, California, New Orleans, the Indian Territory of future Oklahoma, and plans of Baltimore and Washington, DC. The atlas also has three double-page maps. A beautiful example of a mid-19th Century American atlas.…

Hardcover. Folio, (15 ½ x 12 ¾ inches). 93 full- or double-page maps with original hand-color in full, lithographed plate "A Time Table," numerous insets and plans (a few short tears). Original publisher's half brown morocco, brown cloth boards, gilt (corners and spine quite worn with loss, binding shaken and loose but holding). Later revised edition, first published in 1862, bearing the newer copyright date of 1879. After retirement around 1860, the innovative, shrewd, and prolific map publisher, S. Augustus Mitchell turned the business over to his son of the same name. Mitchell, Jr. continued with the classic and popular Mitchell atlas under the title New General Atlas, in a slightly smaller format, as here, and was issued annually until 1887. The maps continued to be used right up to the end of the nineteenth century, sometimes by other publishers. See Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 313.…

Square folio, pp. [4], 27, [5]; 96 hand-colored maps on 70 sheets; a worn copy with joints amateurishly repaired, front free endpaper and flyleaf with creases and tears in the margins, title page with short tear in gutter, gilt on cover dull, spine scuffed and with amateur repairs at top and bottom; internally with the maps uniformly clean but occasionally with a tear or two entering from the margins or folds (no loss); original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover. A good and complete copy. Includes full page city maps of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Greenbrier, West Virginia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and New Orleans. Contained in a new stiff card clamshell box. …

Square folio, pp. [4], 27, [4]; 84 hand-colored maps on 54 sheets; gilt on cover dull, spine a little scuffed; internally very clean; aside from the dullness of the binding, a very good, sound copy in publisher's quarter brown morocco and brown cloth lettered in gilt on front. Includes full page city maps of Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and New Orleans.…

Zustand: Good. Containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc. Embraced in fifty-five quarto maps.forming a series of eighty-seven maps and plans together with valuable statistical tables.

map, original engraving, hand-coloured, image size approximately 53 x 35 cm old Antique Print / originale Druckgrafik; Cobb, D.A. New Hampshire maps to 1900, 363 en 500 Landkarte.