A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1879 map of Boston, Massachusetts.  Covers Boston as far east as Brookline and as far south as Dorchester.  Detailed to the level of individual buildings and streets.  An inset in the lower right quadrant depicts Boston Harbor.  Features the vine motif border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1866 - 1882 period. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell for inclusion as plate nos. 26 and 27 in the 1880 issue of  Mitchell’s New General Atlas .  Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1879 by S. A. Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
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1879 (dated)
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