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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1836	Mitchell, S. Augustus	Philadelphia	Mitchell's Traveller's Guide through The United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes & c.	$1,350	Picture

An engraved fold out map, with hand colored outlines and engraved geometric border.

Size: 17 inches X 21.6 inches folding down to 5.1 inches x 3.1 inches.

Map Type: Pocket

The map is in supurb condition with very light age discoloration throughout. Two crease lines slightly separated, but no loss of paper or image. The map is particularly clean and brightly colored.

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, with Distances, in Miles, from Place to Place. Illustrated by an Accurate Map of the United States, Mitchell & Hinman, Philadelphia, 1836, 78 pp. in dark blue leather with gilt decorated boards and titled in gilt on cover. Leather slightly chipped at tail of spine, but in excellent condition.

Map is copyrighted 1834, and dated in the cartouche 1836. Inset maps of 'Vicinity of Cincinnati,' 'Vicinity of Albany,' Vicinity of the Falls of Niagra,' 'Vicinity of New Orleans,' 'Vicinity of Boston,' 'Vicinity of New York,' 'Vicinity of Philadelphia,' 'Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington' and 'Vicinity of Charleston' all which have hand colored border outlines.

This is the first Mitchell's Guide to label Texas as such and not as part of Mexico, and the first to be published as a booklet as rather than a simple fold-out chart. This is an excellent example of this early map and chart.

The map shows as far northeast as parts of New Brunswick; Southeast to Florida just above Tampa Bay; Southwest to Texas around Galveston Bay; and Northwest through parts of Missouri Territory [Kansas and Nebraska].

Towns and county courthouses are displayed along with the distances between them and the connecting roads. The locations of Revolutionary War battle grounds, Indian tribe ranges, forts and military camps are all identified.

References: A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 890, Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1901; American Maps and Mapmakers, p309, Ristow, George, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1985