An extremely attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of Turkey in Asia.  This map, made when the Ottoman Empire controlled much of the Middle East, covers what is today Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.  Ottoman provinces are color coded and numbered.  An inset map in the lower left quadrant shows the environs of Constantinople (Istanbul).  Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s.  Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 66 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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1850 (dated)
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