Bidspirit auction | Mitchell - Map of North

Mitchell - Map of North America - This originally hand-colored, lithographed maps is from Samuel Augustus Mitchell's A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. . The work was published in in Philadelphia in 1854 by Cowperthwait, Desilver, & Butler. Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792-1868) and his sons were leading map publishers in the United States in the 19th century. Mitchell moved to Philadelphia c1830 in the hopes to improve geography textbooks and American cartographical information. He acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas (first published in 1836), and issued his first printing of the work in 1846.