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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1832	Mitchell, S. Augustus	Philadelphia	Mitchell's Traveller's Guide through The United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes & c.	$1,600	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. Some crease line separations expertly repaired with no loss of paper or image. The map is clean and brightly colored.

Mitchell's Traveller's Guide through The United States (Cover Title), in brown leather with gilt decorated boards and titled in gilt on cover. The map was engraved on steel by J.H. Young.

Map is copyrighted 1832, and dated in the cartouche 1832. Inset maps of 'Vicinity of Cincinnati,' 'Vicinity of Albany,' Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara,' '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 edition of Mitchell's Guide. The accompanying fold-out chart contains a complete index to the location of cities related to the map. It also provides the Steam-boat and canal routes, a Statististical table of the United States including the different classes and estimated numbers of inhabitants in 1830. The chart also includes the Heights of the Principal Mountains and Hills in the United States, Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the United States, Lengths of the Principal Raliroads (finished or in progress) in the United States, Lengths of the Principal Canals (finished or in progress), and a table showing the distances between major cities in the United States. This is a very good copy and an excellent example of this early chart and map.

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: References: A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 888, Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1901; American Maps and Mapmakers, p309, Ristow, George, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1985