1850 Mitchell Map of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland
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Description: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell senior's 1850 map of Scandinavia, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Map shows Scandinavia in full with color coding according to region. A table to the right of the map details various districts and prefectures. In addition to towns, cities, rivers, and provinces, Mitchell also identifies an assortment of additional geographical and topographical details. Notes the legendary and semi-mythical whirlpool known as the Maelstrom (Mahl Strom) in northwestern Norway. Published S. A. Mitchell Sr. as page numbers 56 in the 1850 edition of New Universal Atlas.
Date: 1850 (dated)
Source: Mitchell Sr., S. A.,A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. (1850 issue)
References: Rumsey 0537.052 (1847 edition). Phillips (Atlases), 6103-51,
Cartographer: Samuel Augustus Mitchell Senior began his map publishing career in the early 1830s. Having worked as a school teacher, Mitchell was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of school texts of the period. His first maps were an attempt to rectify this problem. In the next 20 years Mitchell would become the most prominent American map publisher of the mid-19th century. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers H. S. Tanner and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell teamed up with printer Cowperthwait & Company to produce the Mitchell's Universal Atlas and the Mitchell's General Atlas. In the late 1850s most of the Mitchell copyrights were bought by Desilver and Co. who continued to publish his maps, many with modified borders and color schemes, until Mitchell's son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, entered the picture. S.A. Mitchell Jr. purchased most of the copyrights back from Desilver and, from 1860 on, published his own New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father and published atlases well into the late 1880s when most of the copyrights were again sold and the Mitchell firm closed its doors for the final time. Click here for a list of rare maps from Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
Size: Printed area measures 10 x 12.5 inches (25.4 x 31.75 centimeters)
Condition: Good. Minor offsetting and overall age toning. Blank on verso.
Code: NorwaySweden2-mitchell-1850 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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