A fine example of Mitchell’s 1866 map of the United States.  This map covers the entirety of the continental United States along with parts of Canada and Mexico.  Depicts the country in considerable detail with notations regarding railroads, mail routes (including the famed Pony Express Routes), emigrant routes westward, topographical, and political details.   Represents the 1866 state of the map in which the Western states are presented in an early ephemeral configuration.  Arizona, for example, contains what is today the southern extension of Nevada, including Las Vegas, which is noted.  An inset map in the lower right quadrant focuses on the Island of Newfoundland – an important site for the American cod fishing industry in the 19th century.  One of the most attractive American atlas maps of the United States to appear in the mid-19th century.  Features the floral border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1860-65 period.  Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for inclusion as map no. 9 in the 1866 issue of  Mitchell’s New General Atlas .  Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. A. Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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1866 (dated 1860)
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