Map of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi & Alabama.
Item #62217
MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus & YOUNG, James Hamilton. Map of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi & Alabama. Phila.: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1835. Engraved hand-colored pocket map, 18 x 22 inches. Orig. gilt-decorated red morocco boards. Two minute holes at folds, else fine. Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, pp. 303-304, 309-313. Schwartz and Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 255. Tooley, pp. 260-261. The decorative vignettes on the border depict a bald eagle looking down on a steamboat and sailing ship at top, fruit bowl at bottom. There are inserted indices with "Steam Boat Routes" and "Principal Stage Routes, through the States of Louisiana, Mississippi & Alabama." Mitchell (1792-1868) was one of the leading map publishers of the nineteenth-century. He joined with Young (1792-c.1870) to produce precise, geographically balanced maps. In 1832 they published a Travellers' Guide through the United States: A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boats & Canal Routes &c. This was reissued several times and led them to produce a series of tourist pocket maps beginning in 1834. This pocket map from 1835 includes the sorts of information found in the Travellers' Guides, such as mileage markers along main roads and waterways, and the indices of steamboat and stage routes.
Price: $2,500.00