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Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
Full Title
(Covers to) Mitchell's Compendium Of The Internal Improvements Of The United States; Comprising General Notices Of All The Most Important Canals and Rail-Roads... Philadelphia: Published By Mitchell & Hinman, No. 6, North-Fifth Street. 1838. (on verso) Entered ... 1835, by Mitchell & Hinman ... Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by John Fagan ... Philadelphia. (with) Mitchell's Map Of The United States Showing the Principal Travelling, Turnpike and Common Roads ... Philadelphia: Published By S. Augustus Mitchell. 1838. Sold by Mitchell & Hinman. No. 6 North Fifth Street. Entered ... 1835, by S. Augustus Mitchell... Pennsylvania. (with 8 inset maps).
List No
0521.001
Note
The second edition. No obvious changes noted from the 1835 edition of the map. Full color. 84 Page book is bound into patterned teal blue cloth covers with "The American Traveller, And Guide Through The United States." on cover label. Four page catalogue of Mitchell's maps.
Author
[Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, Drake, Ira S.]
Full Title
(Covers to) Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States, Containing The Principal Cities, Towns &c. ... Illustrated By An Accurate Map Of The United States. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. 1849. (on verso) Entered ... 1848, by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. ... Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by J. Fagan. Printed by Smith & Peters. (with map) Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States, Showing the Rail Roads, Canals, Stage Roads &c. ... Drawn and Engraved by Ira S. Drake. Philadelphia 1849 Published by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Entered ... 1848, by Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co. ... Pennsylvania. (with 5 inset maps).
List No
2766.001
Note
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.
Author
[Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, Drake, Ira S.]
Full Title
(Covers to) Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States, Containing The Principal Cities, Towns &c. ... Illustrated By An Accurate Map Of The United States. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. 1853. (on verso) Entered ... 1848, by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. ... Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by J. Fagan. Printed by Smith & Peters. (with map) Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States, Showing the Rail Roads, Canals, Stage Roads &c. ... Drawn and Engraved by Ira S. Drake. Philadelphia 1854. Published by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. Entered ... 1848, by Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co. ... Pennsylvania. (with 5 inset maps).
List No
4196.001
Note
The text is not changed from the 1850 edition, nor are any major changes noted on the map from the 1851 edition map (even though this map is dated 1854). The catalogue of Thomas, Cowperthwait is enlarged from the 1850 edition, with an excellent description of the Mitchell New Universal Atlas: "The results of the latest geographical and nautical discoveries are to be found on the Maps, including those of the most recent date by Wilkes, Nicollet, and Fremont." Outline color. Bound in black stamped leather covers with "Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States" and a beautiful illustration of a steam boat and train stamped in gilt.
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