1838 Mitchell Pocket Map of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois & Michigan
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Description: A fine and rare 1839 S. A. Mitchell pocket map depicting the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. Insets include, 'Vicinity of Detroit,' 'Vicinity of Cincinnati,' 'Falls of Ohio,' 'Lead Region East of the Mississippi.' A chart on the left-hand side of the map details steamboat routes from: Pittsburg to New Orleans, Louisville to St. Louis, Louisville to Lafayette, St. Louis to Prairie du Chien, St. Louis to Peoria, Buffalo to Detroit, Detroit to Chicago. Dated and copyrighted “Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1834 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Clerk’s office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.”
Date: 1838
References: Karpinski, Maps of Michigan, 126
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 22 x 18 inches (55.88 x 45.72 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition. Printed on thin paper. Folds into 16mo folder from which it has been detached for framing purposes. Several verso repairs and reinforcements along original fold lines.
Code: OHINILMI-mitchell-1839 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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