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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XLVIII]
[Pl. XLVIII]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 8 3/8 x 13 3/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 22 3/8 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9106 $700.00  
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. LIV]
[Pl. LIV]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 8 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 22 3/8 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9108$700.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XXX]
[Pl. XXX]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 14 x 9 1/4 inches. Sheet size: 16 5/8 x 22 3/8 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9111$1,200.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. VIII]
[Pl. VIII]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 11 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9112$700.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XVIII]
[Pl. XVIII]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 9 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 7/8 x 22 3/8 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9113$700.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XVI]
[Pl. XVI]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some very light soiling. Image size (including text): 11 x 16 inches. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9117$900.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. LXVIII]
[Pl. LXVIII]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling. Image size (including text): 12 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches. Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9119$1,200.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XLIX]
[Pl. XLIX]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling and very minor foxing in the left margin. Image size (including text): 13 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 22 3/8 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9120$1,200.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XXV]
[Pl. XXV]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing in the bottom margin, and slight rippling. Image size (including text): 13 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9121$700.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. LV]
[Pl. LV]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, minor foxing in the bottom margin, and slight creasing. Image size (including text): 11 1/8 x 16 2/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9122$700.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. LXVII]
[Pl. LXVII]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling, a skillfully repaired 2" tear in the top margin, an expertly restored 4" loss in the top right corner, and an original crease travelling through the far right side of the image. Image size (including text): 13 5/8 x 25 3/8 inches. Sheet size: 16 5/8 x 25 7/8 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9123$1,200.00
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 MILLIN de Grandmaison, Aubin-Louis (1759-1818)
Painting from an Etruscan vase [Pl. XIV]
[Pl. XIV]. [Paris: P.Didot l'Ainé for Dubois Maisonneuve, 1808-1810]. Hand-coloured line engraving by A. Clener, on wove paper. Very good condition. Trimmed to the image on all sides. Image size (including text): 17 5/8 x 22 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 17 5/8 x 22 1/2 inches.
A spectacularly beautiful image from a source work for the style which became known as the neo-classical revival or federal style.
This plate is from an extremely scarce work titled Peintures de Vases antiques... appelés Etrusques. Using the great collections of antiquities at Malamaison, the Musée Napoleon, the Bibliothèque impériale, and the Sèvres porcelain manufactury as his source, the publisher, Dubois Maisonneuve, stated that his intention was to provide a series of plates of the highest quality illustrating the breath-taking scenes depicted by the unknown masters who decorated the Etruscan vases of antiquity. The plates were also intended as exemplars for contemporary artists, with the publisher noting that the images offered a wonderful source of inspiration: a sentiment that is still true today.
Cf. Brunet II, 848; cf. Blackmer 1129
#9156$950.00
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 MISHAUT after Louis Carrogis dit CARMONTELLE (1717-1806)
Vüe des Tentes Turques, Prise du Point Q
[Paris: Published by M. Delafosse, 1779]. Hand-coloured engraving. Tipped onto larger sheet of fine laid paper. Very good condtion. Image size (including text): 11 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Sheet size: 13 3/4 x 21 1/8 inches.
A beautifully coloured print picturing one of the many picturesque garden follies in the Parc Monceau, from Carmontelle's "Jardin de Monceau," a collection of plates depicting the innovative features and design of this famous Parisian park.
Designed by Carmontelle for the Duc de Chartres (the future Duc d'Orléans) and erected between 1773 and 1778, the Parc Monceau was one of the first landscaped parks to be constructed in Paris. It was designed in the Anglo-Chinese style, which originated in England and reached the height of its popularity in France during the late eighteenth century. This style was characterized by immaculately manicured foliage and lawns and the particularly by the use of conventions such as fabriques or folies, small ornamental edifices replicating exotic structures like Graeco-Roman temples, Oriental pavilions, Turkish tents, and Egyptian pyramids, which were used to visually enhance the garden, elicit emotion, and evoke lyrical associations with foreign places and ancient cultures.
Essentially self-taught, Louis de Carmontelle was an extremely versatile draughtsman, painter and engraver, whose rare engravings are highly prized today. His first entrée into fashionable French society was as a mathematics tutor to the children of the French nobility, and he later became a popular figure at the royal court, where he entertained courtiers and eminent visitors with his "proverbs" (witty observational verses), his novel "transparencies" (a precursor of the magic lantern in which panoramic views were projected through illuminated transparent paper), and the copious portraits he spontaneously executed upon request. In 1763, he was employed to tutor and entertain the son of the Duc d'Orléans, who several years later entrusted him with the design of the Parc Monceau, one of Carmontelle's greatest artistic achievements.
Cf. Benezit, Dictionnaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Vol. 3, p. 254-5.
#13651$1,500.00
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 MITCHELL, Peter
Jacques Barraband: The Audubon of France, Article in 'The Carlyle' Volume 3, No. 1
New York: 1988.
Large 4to. Wrappers
#652$20.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus
Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes &C
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1832. Period outline color, 17 x 21 inches, folding into gilt-stamped red leather covers. Nine inset maps, with a second 18 x 22-inch folding "Index" sheet.
The first edition. This was the second original production published by the landmark firm of S. Augustus Mitchell, preceded only by the Map of the United States (1831). Mitchell's Traveller's Guide... was one of the first, if not the first, steel engraved map published in the United States. The main map extends as far west as the 95th parallel, or eastern Texas. Rumsey lists later, almost yearly editions, to 1856. The second folding index sheet was replaced by a booklet of text with the 1837 edition, and in 1849 the map was replaced by an entirely new one, by Ira S. Drake.
Ristow, p.304. Rumsey 2088.
#3125$1,950.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus
Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic of United States of North America. Together with Maps the Vicinities of Thirty-Two of The Principal Cities and Towns of the Union
Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1843. Engraved map, with full original colour, 24¼ x 33½ inches, with a secondary folding sheet measuring 25¼ x 34¾ inches, with lengthy table of statistics from the 1840 census, surrounded by thirty-two insets of American cities. Gilt-stamped black leather covers with brass clasp.
First pocket edition of an important map of the United States. The map was also published in the same year as a wall map on rollers, surrounded by the thirty-two inset maps of American cities, that here are found on a separate sheet. As with all of Mitchell's early maps of the United States, the main map extends no further west than the 95th meridian (eastern Texas). Two insets are "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" and "Map of the Southern part of Florida." There is a "Population Table based on the Census of 1840" in the lower left. Rumsey lists editions of 1843, 1846, 1848 and 1850 in a wall map format, but no subsequent pocket map versions.
Rumsey Collection: 2290. Streeter Sale (1967), 3861. Ristow, American Maps & Mapamkers, p.310 (ref)
#3134$2,750.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus
Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States, Containing the Principal Cities, Towns, &C. Alphabetically Arranged; Together with the Stage, Steam-Boat, Canal, and Railroad Routes…Illustrated by an Accurate Map of the United States
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co.,, 1836 [i.e. 1845]. 78pp. plus large folding map: Young, J.H.: "Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes &c." Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1845. To left of title: "Sold by Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co. No. 253 Market St." Period outline color, 17 x 21 inches. Eight insets. 16mo. Gilt-stamped red leather covers. Minor repairs.
The inset, "Vicinity of New Orleans," has been removed so that the new Territory of Iowa can be included.
#3135$750.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus
A Route-Book, Adapted to Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic, Comprising Tables of The Principal Rail-Road, Steam-Boat and Stage Routes, Throughout the United States
Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1847. 46pp. plus large folding map: Young, J.H.: "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic of United States of North America." Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1846. Full period color, 24¼ x 33½ inches. 16mo. Gilt-stamped black leather covers with brass clasp.
There are four insets: "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842," "Map of the Southern part of Florida," "Map of Oregon Territory," and "Map of the State of Texas." The secondary sheet of the 1843 edition of the map with the thirty-two inset city plans has been abolished in favor of a forty-six-page text. The map is revised and updated, most notably by the addition of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The population table has been replaced by two new insets relating to the American West. The inset map of Texas is new. It dates from the first year of statehood, and shows Texas with its Republic boundaries. Not in Rumsey.
Ristow, p.310
#3136$3,750.00
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 [MITCHELL, S. Augustus]
Map of the State of New York Compiled from the Latest Authorities
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1837. Full period color, 17 x 20½ inches, folding into brown leather covers gilt-stamped "Traveller's Map of New-York." Statistical table laid down inside front cover. Minor repairs, a bit of staining.
The third Mitchell edition of D.H. Vance's map of New York State. With five insets: "Map of the Hudson River," "Vicinity of Albany," "Vicinity of New York," "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." This edition is not listed in Rumsey nor in Phillips.
#3246$800.00
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 [MITCHELL, S. Augustus]
Map of the State of New York Compiled from the Latest Authorities
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1839. Full period color, 17 x 20½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped green leather covers. Minor repairs, a bit of staining.
The fourth Mitchell edition of D.H. Vance's map of New York State. Extensive additions to New York's embryonic railroad system, both on the main and the inset maps. "Sold by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. No. 253 Market Street." added below neat line. The front covers now stamped "New-York." With five insets: "Map of the Hudson River," "Vicinity of Albany," "Vicinity of New York," "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." This edition not in Rumsey; not in Phillips.
#3247$750.00
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 [MITCHELL, S. Augustus]
Map of the State of New York Compiled from the Latest Authorities
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1839. Full period color, 17 x 20½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Statistical table laid down inside front cover. Minor repairs, a bit of staining.
The fourth Mitchell edition of D.H. Vance's map of New York State. Extensive additions to New York's embryonic railroad system, both on the main and the inset maps. "Sold by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. No. 253 Market Street." added below neat line. The front covers now stamped "New-York." With five insets: "Map of the Hudson River," "Vicinity of Albany," "Vicinity of New York," "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara" and "Vicinity of Rochester." This edition not in Rumsey; not in Phillips.
#3248$650.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus, and J. H. YOUNG
Map of the United States
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, [1838]. Period outline colour. Wall map, expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in burgundy cloth and on contemporary rollers. Unvarnished. Very good. . Sheet size: 37 x 43 inches.
All in all, it is one of the most accomplished maps of the nation published to its time.
This is the revised 1838 edition of the first map of the United States published by S. Augustus Mitchell. Handsome and important, the map originally appeared in 1831, the year that Mitchell went into business. Mitchell, the leading American map publisher during the decades preceding the Civil War, hired J. H. Young, who had previously worked for Anthony Finley, to produce this new map. Ristow proclaims the map to be an "original production," although it clearly owes a debt to the Map of the United States that Young had prepared for Finley in 1825. Here the format is vertical instead of horizontal, and the western geographical extremities of Finley's map have been eliminated. But Mitchell kept the large inset Map of North America including all of the Recent Geographical Discoveries, and a modified version of Finley's Table of Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains and Hills in the United States. There are new inset plans of vicinities of eight cities: Albany, Niagara, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans. The upper portions of the map are occupied by a Statistical table; Index of the Counties of the United States, and a lovely engraved vignette with the American eagle that surmounts the title.
The map was periodically revised to account for the rapid westward expansion of settlement during the Jacksonian era, and new editions appeared in 1834, 1836, 1838, 1839, and possibly other years.
See Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 309. This 1838 edition not in Rumsey, who lists only the 1831 edition (2723); not in Phillips, America, which lists 1834, 1836 and 1839 editions (pp. 890 & 892).
#4867$3,850.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus, and J. H. YOUNG
Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1849. Wall map, 57 x 70 inches, expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, on contemporary rollers. Old repair evident to lower border. Occasional minute spotting. colour bright and clean. Very good.
A highly important map for the American West.
This mammoth wall map of the United States was originally published in 1834. It was significantly revised at the beginning of the Mexican War in 1846 by the addition of the important inset map of the Transmississippi West entitled A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California. This new inset, which replaced the old inset General Map of the United States, was also separately issued as a pocket map, and was one of the first maps of the Transmississippi West. Rumsey believed that the inset was the first printing of the map, with the separately issued version published later (see 534). The inset was continued on this 1849 edition, with a slightly different title. The 1849 edition is scarce. Rumsey (538) lists only the 1846 edition, and Phillips' America (page 901) lists only an 1851 edition. This copy is particularly handsome in that each existing county for the entire nation has been separately coloured.
Wheat, Gold Rush, 190, Wheat, Transmississippi West, 629.
#4874$15,000.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus (1792-1868)
[North America] Mitchell's New National Map of the United States, North American British Provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, Cuba, West India Islands &.
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1856. Copper-engraved wall map, with full original colour, expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, on contemporary rollers, colour bright and clean, in very good condition. Sheet size: 60 x 60 inches.
The first edition of a highly important map of the United States
As with all of Mitchell's maps of the United States introduced after about 1850, it shows the entire nation, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It thus incorporates all of the territory acquired after the Mexican War, and is one of the finest large-scale maps for the American West of the period. Wheat called it an "achievement," and devotes a full page to its western half (vol. 4, opp. p. 49.) The map shows the Gadsden Purchase (1854) and the newly surveyed boundary between Mexico and the United States (1855). There is new data in Utah and western Colorado derived from Stansbury's 1852 map. The course of the Rio Grande in far west Texas and New Mexico has been corrected according to the boundary survey. Newly created Kansas, Nebraska and Washington Territory are shown. "Constructed and Engraved by W. Williams," and published by Mitchell. The map is also adorned with insets, including; a "Map of the World on Mercator's Projection," a "Map of the World on the Globular Projection," and a "Map of the Sandwich Islands," in addtion to highly informative statistical tables.
Rumsey 2292; Wheat, Transmississippi West, 896
#4878$5,500.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus (1792-1868), and James H. YOUNG (fl.1817-50)
Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States.
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1845. Copper-engraved wall map, with full original colour, expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in green cloth, on contemporary rollers, with bright colour, overall in very good condition. Sheet size: 52 x 66 inches.
An impressive wall map of the United States from a crucial year in American history.
In 1834 Mitchell republished his A New Map of the United States under the title of Reference and Distance Map. New, updated editions appeared almost yearly. When compared to the 1833 edition of the former, this 1845 edition of the Reference and Distance Map shows many new developments in the upper Midwest. The outline of Lake Michigan has undergone extensive corrections. An oversized Wisconsin Territory (1836) now appears. Two of the small insets of American towns have been removed from the upper left-hand corner so that the new oversized Territory of Iowa (1838) could be added. The large inset General Map of the United States now shows Texas in its last year as an independent Republic. An important American map, showing the country on the eve of its second great national expansion.
Rumsey 4223; Phillips, Maps, p. 898.
#4885$6,500.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus, and J. H. YOUNG
Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic or United States of North America. Together with Maps of the Vicinities of Thirty-Two of the Principal Cities and Towns in the Union
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. Wall map, 38 x 46¼ inches, full period colour. Surrounded by thirty-two small maps of individual American cities. Four larger inset maps. Expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in blue cloth, on contemporary rollers. Some creasing and soiling, but overall in very good condition.
An important American map, showing the country anticipating the expansion achieved by the Mexican War.
The fourth edition of an important wall map of the United States, following editions of 1843, 1844, and 1845. Along with thirty-two small maps of individual American cities, there are four insets, including two important new inset maps which first appear on this 1846 version: "Map of Oregon Territory" (shown going up into Canada, beyond its limits of the Treaty of 1846), and "Map of the State of Texas." These new insets replaced the population table that appeared on previous editions. Published at the start of the Mexican War, they show important regions that would be significantly redrawn with the course of events. Texas is shown with its Republic boundaries. Another two additional inset maps--"Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" showing the Maine-Canada boundary, and "Map of the Southern part of Florida"--are carried over from earlier versions of the map. There are also two population tables. As with all of Mitchell's early maps of the United States, the main map extends no further west than the 95th meridian (eastern Texas). Due to the tremendous territorial growth west of the 95th meridian brought about by the Mexican War (1846-48), the map was discontinued after 1850. The map, engraved by J. H. Brightly, also appeared at least once (1843) in a pocket map format, with the thirty-two town plans on a separate sheet.
Not in Phillips, America; Rumsey 3796.
#5399$4,500.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus (1792-1868) and James H. YOUNG (fl.1817-50)
Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1848. Wall map, 55½ x 70½ inches, full original colour, in very good condition, expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, on contemporary rollers, evenly toned, some slight staining along top edge. .
The seventh (1848) edition of this popular and important map by S. Augustus Mitchell and J. H. Young, on the grand scale of 25 miles to the inch. There were any additions since the publication of the 1845 edition, including the appearance of the new State of Iowa (1846) with its present boundaries.
Scarce. Published at the close of the Mexican War, this map is especially important for the large inset A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California (19" x 21"), which first appeared in the 1846 edition. This new inset, which replaced the old inset General Map of the United States, was also separately issued as a pocket map, and was one of the first maps of the Transmississippi West. Rumsey believed that the inset was the first printing of the map, with the separately issued version published later (see 534). Wheat notes that Texas, Oregon and California "embraced the most recent published information extant." It was one of the first commercial maps to incorporate the discoveries of Fremont, as well as those of Nicollet, Wilkes, and Emory's map of Texas (1844). Texas is shown with its Republic boundaries, with a northern panhandle that extended all the way up to the 42nd parallel, into the present state of colourado. The Oregon Territory is shown with the new boundary established by the Compromise of 1846.
The map features a fine steel engraving of an eagle holding arrows and the American flag in its talons, riding a seashell along the Potomac River. The first edition of Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map appeared in 1834, with subsequent editions in 1836, 1836, 1841, 1845, and 1846. This edition is not in Rumsey.
#6564$15,000.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus (publisher)
Mexico & Guatemala
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1847. Full hand-coloured lithograph. Somewhat browned with time, especially in the margins. Waterstain lower left margin. Otherwise excellent. Image size (including text): 12 x 15 inches. Sheet size: 13 7/8 x 17 inches.
Published in Samuel Augustus Mitchell's important atlas, "The New Universal Atlas," this is a superb map of Mexico and Central America at the onset of the Mexican War.
S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were one of the leading publishers of maps in the United States during a 20 year period of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks, Philadelphia then being the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A New American Atlas, published in 1831, was his first work. In 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas (first published in 1836), and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850, when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company published it until 1856, when it was purchased by Charles De Silver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add, edit and alter the charts and to hand-colour the maps.
Mitchell's map of Mexico and Guatemala was published during the Mexican War, as a result of which Mexico lost, or finally acknowledged the loss of, its vast northern holdings to the United States. The map was one of the first to show Texas as a state, having been annexed in 1845 by the U.S., not long before the war broke out. It includes all the land that later became California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
Much of the war took place in Mexico, and site of the major battles are noted: Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey,and Buena Vista, and informed readers could follow the course of events quite well with this detailed map, which includes small towns, roads, mines and topographical details.
The main body of the map extends to Guatemala. It continues south in an inset which includes Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. There is an second inset of the Valley of Mexico, the region around Mexico City.
Phillips, Atlases 6103; Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers. Chapter 18 - "The S.A. Mitchell and J. H. Colton Companies", 303-326; Mapping the West: America's Westward Movement 1524-1890, p. 134-135; Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest 1513-1900, p. 135
#17154$450.00
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Map of Texas from the most recent authorities
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1847. Full hand-coloured lithograph. Somewhat browned with time, especially in the margins. Waterstain lower left margin. Otherwise excellent. Image size (including text): 12 x 15 inches. Sheet size: 13 7/8 x 17 inches.
Published in Samuel Augustus Mitchell's important atlas, "The New Universal Atlas", this is a superb map of Texas at the onset of the Mexican War.
S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading map publishers in the United States for a 20 year period of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks, having been a frustrated geography teacher. Philadelphia was at that time the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A New American Atlas, published in 1831, was Mitchell's first work. In 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas (first published in 1836), and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850, when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company published it until 1856, when it was purchased by Charles De Silver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add, edit and alter the charts and to hand-colour the maps.
This map of Texas was published during the Mexican War, in which the young nation of Mexico was forced to accept the manifested destiny of her northern neighbor. The map was one of the earliest to show Texas as a state (1845), and it shows the state in its Republic form, prior to the Compromise of 1850, extending to the Upper Rio Grande and Arkansas River, and including Santa Fe. The region between the Nueces and Rio Grande, the immediate provocation of war, is of course shown as belonging to Texas.
Mitchell incorporates much of Arrowsmith's information, including Arrowsmith's fictitious note suggesting that the lands north of the Guadalupe Mountains "were naturally fertile, well wooded, and with a fair proportion of water". An inset map in the lower left corner of the sheet shows the north western boundaries of the state, covering the territory between the Arkansas River and the Upper Rio Grande. Only thirty-five counties are mapped out along the eastern borders of the state. The remainder of the state is still allocated Indian land and bears the names of the tribes that inhabit it. This is an important early map of Texas at the outbreak of the Mexican War, and a valuable collector's piece.
Phillips, Atlases 6103, Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers. Chapter 18 - "The S.A. Mitchell and J. H. Colton Companies", 303-326; Mapping the West: America's Westward Movement 1524-1890, p. 134-135; Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest 1513-1900, p. 135
#17155$1,500.00
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 MITCHELL, S. Augustus (1792-1848)
Connecticut
Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1846. Lithographed map, with full original colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 13 3/4 x 17 1/3 inches.
A very fine map of Connecticut, issued by one of the greatest American cartographers
This very attractive map of Connecticut was printed in Mitchell's Philadelphia workshop, which was at the time arguably the most important map publication center in America. It is directly adapted from H.S. Tanner's 1834 map of the state, but is updated to 1846. Each of Connecticut's eight counties are individually distinguished in full original colours, and two insets in the lower right detail the state's most important cities - Hartford and New Haven. The state's topography is elegantly expressed in finely lithographed detail and all major roads and rail lines are depicted. Interestingly, tables to the upper left of the map detail the population statistics of the state and each of its counties advanced to the census of 1840.
Thompson, Maps of Connecticut, 111, p.74
#19789$225.00
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 MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792-1868)
A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c.
Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, 1854. Folio (17 5/16 x 14 inches). Chromolithographic title with large vignette, hand-coloured frontispiece of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers, 73 hand-coloured lithographed maps, charts and a city plan (2 double-page). Publisher's green marbled paper-covered boards with morocco title label elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt on upper cover, morocco spine and corners expertly renewed to style. Modern red cloth box, dark red morocco lettering piece.
A fine copy of this famous atlas, with hand-coloured maps of all the individual States and Territories, including the first map of Minnesota as a state to appear in an atlas.
Despite its title, the Atlas concentrates to a marked degree on the American continent with 36 maps of the area, including a fine double-page east-to-west-coast map of the United States, and a double-page map of New York State.
S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks, Philadelphia then being the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A New American Atlas, published in 1831, was his first work. In 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas (first published in 1836), and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850, when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company published it until the mid-1850s, when it was purchased by Charles De Silver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add, edit and alter the maps and to hand-colour the maps.
Cf. Phillips Atlases 807(1852 edition); cf. Ristow pp. 311-313; Rumsey p.240
#2614$12,000.00
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A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c.
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co, 1852. Folio (17 x 13 3/4 inches). Chromolithographic title with large vignette, hand-coloured frontispiece of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers, contents list printed in red, black and gold, 73 hand-coloured lithographed maps, charts and city plans (1 double-page). Publisher's green marbled paper-covered boards with morocco title label elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt on upper cover, red morocco spine and corners expertly renewed to style. Modern red cloth box, morocco lettering piece.
A fine copy of this famous atlas, with hand-coloured maps of all the individual States and Territories. The map of California shows counties in California and New Mexico for the first time.
Despite its title, the Atlas concentrates to a marked degree on the American continent with 43 maps of the area, including a fine double-page east-to-west-coast map of the United States.
S. Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks, Philadelphia then being the leading city in America for cartographical publications. A New American Atlas, published in 1831, was his first work. In 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas (first published in 1836), and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850, when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia. Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company published it until the mid-1850s, when it was purchased by Charles De Silver. The Cowperthwait company continued to add, edit, alter and hand-colour the maps.
Phillips Atlases 807; cf. Ristow pp. 311-313; Rumsey p.239
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