Texas di augustus mitchell (35 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near-fine hardcover book, first edition, 1948. Includes the map about which this book was written, #12 in the California Centennial editions. A good many pages are uncut.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st. Cloth, 46 pp. (uncut), foldout map. The story of the important and scarce map of Texas, Oregon and California published by Mitchell in 1846 with a fine reprint of the map. Ltd. 750c.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Cover/edges have light wear. Pages are clean/intact.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 45 pages, fold-out map, illustrations, minor edge wear. Text is an compliment to the map. Limited to 750 copies. The first edition was published in 1846. Howes M685, Graff 2841.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Same Date Title And Copyright Pages First Edition Reprint Of The 1846 Original, No Marks Or Names, Square And Solid, Laid In Reprint In Color Of The 1846 Map By The Author " A New Map Of Texas Oregon And California With The Regions Adjoining" Map Is Like New. no.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book is in near fine condition; some staining to title page due to discoloring of a piece of paper. Singed by Joseph Sullivan, who wrote the foreword to the book. Covers are in fine condition and binding is straight and tight. B1. Signed by Author(s).

Condizione: Very good, faint toning. Hand colored map. 21 x 14 inches. Plates 64 & 65: County map of the state of Texas. Showing also portions of the adjoining states and territories, (with inset) Plan of Galveston and vicinity. Copyright by S. Augustus Mitchell 1884. From: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of One Hundred and Forty-seven Maps and Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables. Also, A List Of Post-Offices Of The United States And Territories, And Also Census Of 1880 For States, Territories And Counties, Also Of Cities Of Over 10,000 Inhabitants. Philadelphia: Published By Wm. M. Bradley & Bro., No. 1026 Arch Street. 1886.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 74. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1948 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 74.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 72. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1948 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 72.…

MITCHELL, S. Augustus. Texas, Oregon and California. Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. Oakland: Biobooks, 1948. Illus. folding map. 46pp. Library marks. Orig. cloth. Fine. A reprint of Howes M-688. Limited to 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy.

Hardcover. Condizione: vg+. Mapping the Road to Gold: Mitchell s 1849 Guide to California and the WestSamuel Augustus Mitchell s 1849 Guide and New Map of Texas, Oregon and California form an unusually vivid record of the American West at the openi. 12mo. Hand-colored engraved folding map, housed in publisher's gilt-stamped dark leather pocket binding with illustrations steamship, ferry, and train within ornamental border. Spine very expertly restored. Complete with 76-page text (with original marbled lower wrapper, as issued). 11 wood-engraved text illustrations. Map with minor fold wear, short splits along folds, and tiny paper loss at upper margin edge. Text block with light edge wear and minor handling marks. Except for some light browning (mostly confined to blank margins), a near fine example. Contemporary ink inscription of T. M. Shelley and another contemporary ink notation "3-2 without: 3-6 with." Housed in custom half morocco clamshell case. Mapping the Road to Gold: Mitchell s 1849 Guide to California and the WestSamuel Augustus Mitchell s 1849 Guide and New Map of Texas, Oregon and California form an unusually vivid record of the American West at the opening of the Gold Rush, combining a practical emigrant manual with a map newly adapted for the great westward movement to California.The map captures the West at a moment of extraordinary territorial change. Texas had been annexed in 1845; the Mexican-American War had ended only the previous year; the Oregon boundary had recently been settled with Britain; and vast portions of the newly acquired Southwest remained imperfectly known. Texas is still shown extending its claims far up the Rio Grande into present-day New Mexico, claims that would be relinquished under the Compromise of 1850. Large areas of the interior remain marked Unexplored, a striking reminder of how incomplete American geographical knowledge remained even as thousands of emigrants were preparing to cross the continent.Mitchell s plate had first appeared in 1846, but for this Gold Rush issue it was substantially reworked. The earlier Explanation and table of distances were removed and replaced by insets showing the sea routes to California and the Gold Regions themselves. Considerably more geographical detail was added to the California interior, while the principal overland trails were highlighted in vivid color and the Gold Regions given their own distinctive coloring. The northern boundary was also relabeled Boundary of 1846, reflecting the settlement of the Oregon question. The result transformed what had been a general map of the trans-Mississippi West into something like a vade mecum for the Forty-Niner.The accompanying guide is equally practical. Considerable attention is devoted to the physical character of the country, flora and fauna, Native peoples, regional history, and the practical problems confronting emigrants. Mitchell repeatedly urges travelers to cross the plains in organized, armed wagon companies, recommending groups of twenty to fifty wagons and describing the familiar practice of drawing the wagons into a circle or square at night to form a defensive breastwork. The author clearly favors the overland route, even making the striking prediction that steamships would never supplant sailing vessels as a practical means of reaching California from the East Coast.The map also has an important association with the Mormon migration. Brigham Young is known to have ordered six copies, and an annotated example now at Brigham Young University records the Mormon presence in Utah, apparently predating the printed identification of the Mormon settlement on Fremont s 1848 map.Together, Mitchell s map and guide are important documents of the transformation of the Far West: as a tool for migrants heading West, particularly to California during the Gold Rush, the map embodies the complex dynamics of t. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Second Edition. 24mo. 5.25 in. x 3.25 in. black leather with gilt -roll framing to front board. (The text version Mitchell's Travellers Guide was not published till the following year (1834). Shelfwear to boards. Boards a bit shaken, and leather cracks to joints. inserts have been adhered to inside of covers to give the map case adequate breadth. NOTE: Inserts have been adhered to inside of covers to give the map case adequate breadth. MAP DETACHED BUT PRESENT. For preservation and study purposes, the map is laid flat in archival plastic. [The map will be sent under separate cover in a mail-tube.] Hand-colored map, 18 in. x 22 in. 8 Insets: New Orleans, Cincinnati, Albany, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Charleston. Light browning to left portion of map (Western Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri) and bit near the Legend. Professionally-applied archival tape to rear of map reinforcing the horizontal seams. with INDEX sheet (15-column: 18 in.x 22 in. comprising place names,Steamboat and Canal Routes; Classes of Inhabitants (including Aliens, Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Free Blacks, Slaves, and Whites by Age; Geographical Information consisting of Heights of Mountains, Lengths of Rivers and Railroads, and Canals; a Distance Table between principal cities. Browning across center fold. (Howes M-690). This is the second edition of this publication, the first being in 1832. Note that what is now Texas is labelled "Mexico", and that territory west of Missouri and Arkansas Terittory is labelled "Missouri Territory" with Konzas, Osages, Cherokee Creeks, and Choctaw lands. …

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Single sheet (20 ¾ x 19 ¼ inches). 46-page "Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California" (some spotting at beginning and end). Fine folding lithographed map with original hand color in full (separation along folds, some browning). Original publisher's blind stamped morocco gilt, preserved in a modern half green morocco slipcase, marbled boards with printed paper spine label (top half of backstrip lacking). Provenance: With contemporary manuscript ownership inscription of Augustus ?Scronsius. From the important cartographical library of Warren Heckrotte, his sale, Rare Cartography, Exploration and Voyages, Part II, December 3, 2015, Lot 192. First edition. Rare first edition of this important map of the West at a time of geographic discovery as well as political upheaval and change. The map is issued with the 46-page text "Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the Regions Adjoining." As noted in the Accompaniment, Texas has recently been annexed into the United States, and California is in limbo, "Upper California. This part of Mexico was declared independent in 1845. It has of late attracted much attention in the United States; a number of Americans are already settled in it, and many others are preparing to emigrate thither." Regarding Oregon, the Accompaniment declares that "the United States have an indubitable claim to the whole region of Oregon, from N. lat 42º to 54º 40', yet the government has several times proposed, from motives of accommodation, to adopt the 49th parallel of latitude as the dividing line." The proposed boundary line along the 49th parallel is shown on the map, though the coloring of Oregon still reflects joint occupation up to N. lat 54º 40'. "In the Upper California portion, Fremont is carefully followed, while further north Wilkes is followed. The boundary (to be) with Mexico is imperfectly shown but Texas appears with the magnified boundaries, including Santa Fe, of the 1844 Emory. The various claims to Oregon appear. The Accompaniment is of particular interest, containing perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to settlement of the former's boundaries and inclusion of the latter in the United States" (Wheat). Cowan p.433. Graff 2841. Howes M685. Wheat Transmississippi 520. Wheat Gold Rush 29. Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, Plate 36 and p. 57. California 49, map 25. Sabin 49714.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folding lithographed pocket map (22 4/8 x 21 inches) with original hand-colour in full (laid down at an early date on tissue). Bound after "Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, With the Regions Adjoining". Original black roan embossed in blind and lettered in gilt (rebacked). First edition. When published this was the most accurate map and emigrant information available, and self-avowedly compiled from "the Congressional Map of Texas, 1844, Kennedy's Map of Texas by Arrowsmith, Mitchell's Map of Texas, Ward's Map of Mexico, Frémont's Map of his explorations in Oregon, California, &c., 1842, 1843, 1844, Map of Lewis and Clarke's tour, Major Long's tour to the Rocky Mountains, Nicollet and Frémont's exploration of the country between the Mississippi and Missouri, the Congressional Map of the Indian territory, and Mitchell's Map of the United States" (page 3). Clearly showing the Oregon Road, and the Santa Fe trails from Independence, Missouri, and with a table of distances between Westport and Oregon City. "In the Upper California portion, Fremont is carefully followed, while further north Wilkes is followed. The boundary (to be) with Mexico is imperfectly shown but Texas appears with the magnified boundaries, including Santa Fe, of the 1844 Emory. The various claims to Oregon appear. The Accompaniment is of particular interest, containing perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to settlement of the former's boundaries and inclusion of the latter in the United State" (Wheat). "California" occupies the entire area of modern-day California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. Texas is shown as a state of the Union, including a Panhandle that reaches north to the 42nd parallel and a border on the Rio Grande. This popular maps was published in several formats: pocket map with guide (as here), separate map in pocket folder (no guide), separate sheet map, map included with printed reference or general guides to the U.S., wall map, and inset on a larger wall map of the U.S. Another edition appeared in Mitchell's 1849 'Description of Oregon and California'. Cowan p.433; Graff 2841; Howes M685; Wheat Transmississippi 520; Wheat Gold Rush 29.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Single sheet (22 x 21 inches). Folding lithographic map with original color, linen backed (evidence of early repair, a bit browned). Modern cloth portfolio. Provenance: Near contemporary annotations recording journals westward. The rare first edition of this important map of the West at a time of geographic discovery as well as political upheaval and change. The table in the lower left-hand corner details the distances between way points of the "Emigrant Route from Missouri to Oregon" Other official routes indicated on the map but not described in detail are those of Fremont's explorations, the "Caravan Route from Missouri to Santa Fe," the "Great Spanish Trail from California to Santa Fe," and "Lt. Col. Cooke's wagon road." In addition a contemporary hand has marked the routes west taken by three emigrants "Ch. Verendige", "Alex" and "Whitney". Cowan p.433; Graff 2841; Howes M685; Wheat Transmississippi 520; Wheat Gold Rush 29.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Single sheet (22 x 21 inches). Folding lithographic map with original color, tipped in after the "Accompaniment." (some folds strengthened on verso, but a FINE AND BRIGHT COPY of a fragile map). Original maroon morocco, covers elaborately decorated in blind, lettered in gilt within an elaborate border in the center of the front cover. Modern quarter maroon morocco clamshell box. Provenance: Penciled presentation inscription from "John B. Colahan to his friend Joseph Trasel Esq. Lodge Hall Aug 5. 1846" on the front free endpaper. The rare first edition, and AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY of this important map of the West at a time of geographic discovery as well as political upheaval and change. As noted in the "Accompaniment.", Texas has recently been gathered into the bosom of the United States, and California is in limbo, "Upper California. This part of Mexico was declared independent in 1845. It has of late attracted much attention in the United States; a number of Americans are already settled in it, and many others are preparing to emigrate thither." Regarding Oregon, the "Accompaniment." declares that "the United States have an indubitable claim to the whole region of Oregon, from N. lat 42o to 54o 40', yet the government has several times proposed, from motives of accommodation, to adopt the 49th parallel of latitude as the dividing line.". Wheat describes the map: "In the Upper California portion, Fremont is carefully followed, while further north Wilkes is followed. The boundary (to be) with Mexico is imperfectly shown but Texas appears with the magnified boundaries, including Santa Fe, of the 1844 Emory. The various claims to Oregon appear. The "Accompaniment." is of particular interest, containing perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to settlement of the former's boundaries and inclusion of the latter in the United States." Cowan p.433; Graff 2841; Howes M685; Wheat Transmississippi 520; Wheat Gold Rush 29.…

10 3/4 x 8 1/4 unches. Condizione: Very good-. This is a very nice small format map of Texas. It has an inset of Galveston area and an inset of the Panhandle laid out in non-conforming sections. The single color includes all the counties. It would make a very nice addition to your collection. It is matted for framing.…

Unbound, colored engraved map, decorative boarder, 22 1/2"x 14 1/2". Slight toning, a little staining in margins, slight darkening in bottom part of crease at center fold; overall bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board, or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846, and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860, S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over, and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive map of Texas from the 1882 installment. The city of Galveston is highlighted in an inset. Ristow 311-313 Phillips 907.…

Unbound, colored engraved map, decorative boarder, 22 1/2"x 14 1/2". Slight toning, a little staining in margins, slight darkening in bottom part of crease at center fold; overall bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board, or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846, and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860, S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over, and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is one of the more colorful and attractive maps of Texas from the 1869 installment of that atlas. The city of Galveston is highlighted in an inset. Ristow 311-313.…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. County Map of Texas [inset: Galveston Bay and Vicinity]. New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1860. Lithograph map (388 x 311 mm), hand-colored. Wonderful map. CONDITION: there is a fair amount of foxing on the reverse of the map though virtually none of it escapes to the image, though there are a few spots here and there. Also there is some browning along the margins as you can see in the photo. COMMENT: about a third of Texas is still composed of "territories", including Young (encompassing the Llano Estacado of the Lonesome Dove tetralogy fame, "destitute of both wood and water" says the map), Bexar, El Paso, and Presidio (home of the Hat Creek Outfit from LD. CONDITON: VG. Nic copy of this great map.…

21 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches. Condizione: Very good. Beautiful map of Texas with and inset of Galveston. The map shows the entire state with portions of New Mexico, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Louisiana. A classic map of Texas.

Unbound, colored engraved map, decorative boarder, 22 1/2" x 14 1/2". Normal aging and toning, crease at center fold, some staining in margins; otherwise very good and bright and clean. Maps are wrapped with acid free board, or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846, and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860, S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over, and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive map of Texas is from the 1882 installment. The city of Galveston is shown in an inset. The map has good detail and nice coloring. Extra postage will be required. Ristow 311-313.…

Unbound, colored engraved map, decorative boarder, 15" x 12". Slight toning in margins, normal aging, ample margins; overall bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board, or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846, and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860, S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over, and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive map of Texas from the 1869 installment. The city of Galveston is highlighted in an inset. Ristow 311-313. Phillips 907.…

Incisione in acciaio, dipinta d'epoca a tutto campo, mm 270x340. Carta del territorio con riquadro che raffigura la baia di Galveston, tutto inquadrato entro bordura decorativa con vitigno intrecciato. Bell'esemplare ben conservata, minimi lievi macchie marginali. Nr.cat: cod 3767.

Engraved colored map, 11" x16", smaller map inset included. Some soiling, toning and browning, a little occasional foxing, a couple places with small miss coloring, very slight, decent margins; very good otherwise. This is a historically significant early Mitchell map of the United States from the Mitchell's School & Family Geography. Texas is shown as a separate country, and part of the map is an inset featuring Mexico and Guatemala. Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregon, Missouri are territories, and not yet states. A somewhat sizeable section of land is presented as the Indian Territory.…

The very important 1846 Mitchell map of Texas and the American West, here included as frontispiece to his General View of the United States, published the same year. Samuel Augustus Michell was one of the most influential map publishers in America in the 19th century, also producing numerous travel guides and statistical compilations to accompany them. The map present here is one of his most significant, representing "a great step forward, in that it is among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin.because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only with the public but on other commercial cartographers" (Wheat). Published in 1846, this highly detailed "New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining" would have been of immediate value to the public, who were focused with intense interest on the war breaking out on the Texas-Mexico border. It depicts the western portion of the United States to the Pacific, with Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa, and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region. The Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail are both detailed, the latter with a table of distances published in the lower corner of the map. It is also deeply reflective of America's most aggressive land claims: Texas is elaborately depicted with the Rio Grande as its southern border, and Oregon is shown extended to 54deg 40". As one of if not the best commercial Western maps available, it played a part in some of the largest developments in the country at the time: Brigham Young, for example, ordered six copies before setting out for Utah that winter. The map was originally published with a short pamphlet very similar to the book offered here; it describes each territory or state in turn, with notes on Lewis and Clark and other early explorers, and more historical material. The General View of the United States which accompanies this copy provides detailed statistics, tables, and charts for every state in the Union as of 1840, including population, institutions of higher education, and details of mining and natural resources. The section on "Western States and Territories" prints much of the same information as the original accompaniment, including notes on Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Long, and additional details which Wheat calls "perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to the settlement of the former's boundaries and the inclusion of the latter in the United States." A valuable and historically important map, and highly illustrative of the explosive territorial expansion and concomitant conflicts of the 19th century. Map: HOWES M685, "aa." SABIN 49714. MARTIN & MARTIN 36. WAGNER-CAMP 122b. COWAN, p.433. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 520. STREETER SALE 2511. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.844. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 29. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 91. GRAFF 2841. Text: SABIN 49716. Original half cloth and printed paper boards. Boards a bit stained and soiled, extremities worn, neat cloth repairs to rear joint. Map: Light tanning and foxing, top edge slightly ragged, not touching image, two closed tears near where map is attached to gutter, repaired with paper on verso. Text tanned and foxed, a handful of early pencil annotations throughout and ownership inscription in ink on final page. A very good copy of the map, the text about the same.…

Map. Condizione: Good Plus. Folding lithographic map, 22.75 in. x 21 in., with original color. Map is laid flat in archival plastic, and will be securely protected, and shipped in a mailing tube. Tanning to seams. Tape repairs and reinforcement on verso to all seams. Tiny losses of paper at six seam junctions. Storm 2841. Wagner-Camp 122b. This is Mitchell's third map of Oregon (the first being "Oregon and California" published in Mitchell's ;School and Family Geography;, and the second being "Mexico and Guatemala" which includes Upper or New California, New Mexico and Texas." (Wheat, Mapping The Transmississippi West 520). Carl Wheat described it as: ".a work of real importance, highly popular [and].on it the influence of the War wioth Mexico is strikingly revealed.It was among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin. The Texas claim to a western boundary up the Rio Grande is here shown, with the northern panhandle extending all the way to the 42nd parallel.Because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only on the public but on other commercial cartographers." "The region covered by the map was of particular interest in 1846 because of two recent and related events. In 1845, Texas was admitted into the Union, which prompted Mexico to invade Texas in 1846, thus precipitating the U.S.-Mexican war. General curiosity about the new State of Texas and interest in the war with Mexico led to Mitchell's timely map becoming quite popular. Mitchell used the latest and best sources for the map, including Arrowsmith's 1841 map of Texas, Fremont's and Emory's maps of their explorations in the region, data from the Lewis & Clark expedition, Nicollet's map of the region between the Mississippi River and the Missouri River, Wilkes map of Oregon. Among other significant uses of the map, Brigham Young ordered 6 copies of the map and an example in the BYU collection includes an annotation placing the Mormons in Utah, pre-dating Fremont's map of 1848, which is the first printed map noting the presence of the Mormons in the Great Basin. The map shows Texas's claims to the Upper Rio Grande in present-day New Mexico -- eventually given up, as part of the Great Compromise of 1850, in exchange for the U.S. Federal Government's assumption of Texas's public debt. One of the most influential maps in Western American History." (from Stanford University Library).…

1st Edition. "Single sheet (22 x 20 ½ inches). Folding lithographic map with original full hand coloring, tipped in after the "Accompaniment" (strengthened on verso, a bit stained). Original green leather binding, lettered in gilt within an elaborate embossed border in the center of the front cover (extremities a bit rubbed, but a FINE copy). Provenance: penciled ownership inscription of Jacob Warner, from Cincinnati, Ohio, on front free-end paper. The first edition, and A FINE COPY of one of Mitchell's most popular and important map. As noted in the "Accompaniment", Texas has recently been gathered into the bosom of the United States, and California is in limbo, "Upper California. This part of Mexico was declared independent in 1845. It has of late attracted much attention in the United States: a number of Americans are already settled in it, and many others are preparing to emigrate thither" Regarding Oregon, the "Accompaniment" declares that "the United States have an indubitable claim to the whole region of Oregon, from N. lat 42o to 54o 40', yet the government has several times proposed, from motives of accommodation, to adopt the 49th parallel of latitude as the dividing line". Wheat describes the map: "In the Upper California portion, Fremont is carefully followed, while further north Wilkes is followed. The boundary (to be) with Mexico is imperfectly shown but Texas appears with the magnified boundaries, including Santa Fe, of the 1844 Emory. The various claims to Oregon appear. The "Accompaniment" is of particular interest, containing perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out the period just prior to settlement of the former's boundaries and inclusion of the latter in the United States." Cowan p.433; Graff 2841; Howes M685; Sabin 49714; Wheat Transmississippi 520; Wheat Gold Rush 29.".…

This hand colored map was made for "Mitchells New General Atlas", published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in 1872. Texas is illustrated on this map. An inset map shows a Plan of Galveston and vicinity at a greater scale than on the main map. Other details include the names of counties, and important cities, creeks and rivers, mountain ranges, territories, railroads, and lakes. Nice pastel coloring and a floral border complete this map beautifully.This map measures 21 inches by 14 inches.…

This map was made by S. Augustus Mitchell for "Mitchells New General Atlas" published in 1884, by WM. M. Bradley & Co. The well maintained maps in this atlas feature Mitchell's characteristic pastel coloring and abundant geographical features. Details include the names of counties, cities, towns, transportation routes, rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges. Regions are distinguished by color. These 1884 maps offer a fascinating perspective of areas that have since undergone significant growth and change, in addition to their value as great examples of Mitchell's work.This map measures 21 inches by 14 inches. …