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Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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Second edition. With 76 page "Description of Oregon and California, Embracing an account of the Gold Regions...;" The full color map is folded into stamped black leather covers 13.5x8 with "Texas, Oregon And California" in gilt. This was one of Mitchell's most popular and important pocket maps. Other editions were published in 1846, 1851, and 1852, as pocket maps and as insets to the large Reference and Distance Map of the United States. It was also issued separately as a wall map. This issue has the gold regions outlined and labeled in California and an inset map "Maritime and Overland Routes to California" and a second inset map "Map of the Gold and Quicksilver District of California." Mitchell first issued this map as an inset to his Reference and Distance Map of the United States in the 1846 edition (see our copy).
Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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The Oregon and Upper California map is enlarged to include all of New Mexico and New Mexico is added to the title. Last edition published by Mitchell. Full color maps. Covers are half leather marbled paper covered boards with "Mitchell's Universal Atlas" stamped in gilt on the front cover label.
Author
[Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, Drake, Ira S.]
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This is a major revision of the guide with an entirely new map by Ira S. Drake (about whom we find nothing) with five inset maps entitled - "Vicinity Of Niagara Falls", "Map Of The Copper Mine Region", "Map of the Gold and Quicksilver district of California", "Map of the Maritime and Overland Routes to California", and "Map Of New England Or Eastern States". The map emphasis on the California gold rush is clear, although the 128 pages of expanded text do not yet list routes to the gold fields, while they do add routes west from St. Louis and Independence. The main map is larger than the earlier Mitchell/Young maps, but shows roughly the same area on a somewhat larger scale. An "Advertisement" (actually a preface) dated Nov. 1, 1848, states: "The following work is similar in design to 'Mitchell's Traveller's Guide,' first published about twelve years ago, and which has been so extremely patronized, that it may be safely asserted no book of the kind ever printed in this country has met with so wide a circulation." Covers are black stamped leather with "Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States" and a beautiful illustration of a steam boat and train stamped in gilt. Map is outline color. Catalogue of Thomas, Cowperthwait School Books included in the text.
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