A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s  map of Georgia & Alabama. Extremely detailed and decorative showing Cities, Towns, roads & rivers.The map is encased by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865. This is plate 29 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas.

Dated and credited on the map,

 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."

Light age toning otherwise fine, virtually unmarked condition and blank verso. Bright, vibrant hand colouring.

Measuring approx. 13" x 10.5" (330mm x 270mm) printed area only 15" x 12" ( 380mm x 300mm) overall.

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 Cartographer

For over 50 years, Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his successors and son were one of the most prominent publishers of maps and atlases in the United States.  Samuel Augustus Mitchell Senior began his map publishing career in the early1830s. 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,  until Mitchell’s son, Samuel Augustus 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.