An attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of the Austrian Empire.  Includes much of today's Austria, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Serbia and Croatia. Depicts the entire country color coded according to individual states.  Lower right quadrant features an inset map of the Environs of Vienna. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s.  Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 53 in the 1853 edition of his  New Universal Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait &amp; Co., in the Clerks office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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1853 (dated 1850)
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