A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Junior’s 1864 map of Texas and part of New Mexico.  Highly detailed with notations on railroads, topographical features, springs and cities.  Color coded at the county level, with Bexar, Young, Presidio, and El Paso exhibiting primitive configurations. Lower left hand quadrant features an inset map of Galveston Bay and Vicinity.  One of the most attractive atlas maps of Texas to appear in the mid 19th century.  Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1866.  Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 34 in the 1866 issue of  Mitchell’s New General Atlas .  Like many American map publishers of this period, though he did update his maps, Mitchell did not update his copyrights, consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860: “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus 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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