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Mitchell's School Atlas 1854, hand-colored maps

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Title: Mitchell's School Atlas: Comprising the Maps and Tables Designed to Accompany Mitchell's School and Family Geography
Author: Mitchell, [Samuel Augustus]
Description: With 18 hand-colored maps (5 are double-page), plus insets. 4to. Original ¼ calf & printed paper over boards. Fourth Revised Edition.Includes the double-page map of the United States (with inset of the Gold Region), along with double-page maps of the Southern, Western, Middle, and New England States; full-page map of Texas with 2 insets (Galveston City and Northern Texas); plus a few maps of other countries and regions, including Oceanica at the end.
Heading: zzg(School Atlas)Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher: Cowperthwait, Desilver, & Butler
Date Published: 1854

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Darkening and scuffs to exterior, chipping to paper over boards and spine foot; soiling, some stains; maps still nice and bright; maps very good, binding just good.

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Americana - Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Apr 17th, 2008

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