An extremely attractive example of S. A. Mitchell Sr.’s 1853 map of Southern Italy and Sicily.  Covers from Rome south to include the boot of Italy and Sicily. Color coded according to region.  An inset in the lower right hand quadrant details the vicinity of Naples. Surrounded by the green border common to Mitchell maps from the 1850s.  Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for issued as plate no. 61 in the 1853 edition of his New Universal Atlas .
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1850 (undated)
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