COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Map of the World in Mercator projection
Obj Height cm:
36
Obj Width cm:
46
Scale 1:
100,000,000
Note:
Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows dated routes of ocean explorations, indicating the explorers.
Reference:
P846.
Full Title:
Map of the World in Mercator projection. Exhibiting the American Continents as its center. Entered ... 1864 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. ... Pennsylvania.
List No:
0572.007
Page No:
2
Series No:
7
Pub Date:
1865
Pub Title:
Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Fifty-Five Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of Eighty-Seven Maps And Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables. Philadelphia: Published By S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. No. 31 South Sixth Street. 1865. Entered ... 1860, by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. ... Pennsylvania.
Pub Reference:
P846.
Pub Note:
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware are split into two maps in this edition, as opposed to being combined in previous years. This copy also includes a new map of Utah and Nevada, and Idaho and Montana are now shown on the Oregon and Washington map. Maps have full hand painted color. Atlas is bound in embossed half leather brown cloth covered boards with "Mitchell's New General Atlas" stamped in gilt.
Pub List No:
0572.000
Pub Maps:
52
Pub Height cm:
40
Pub Width cm:
33
Image No:
0572007
Publisher Location:
Phiadelphia
Publisher:
S.A. Mitchell Jr.
Type:
Atlas Map
World Area:
World
Engraver or Printer:
Gamble, W.H.
Engraver or Printer:
Williams, W.
Publication Author:
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr.
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr.
Date:
1865
Map of the World in Mercator projection
