Brunk Auctions
Live Auction

Day 1: Fine Art & Decorative Works

Thu, Jul 16, 2015 05:00PM EDT - Fri, Jul 17, 2015 05:00PM EDT
Lot 236

<em>A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1847, with 72 hand-colored copper-engraved maps (complete), plus frontispiece of principal mountains and rivers of the world, and an engraved pictorial title page, Mitchell's important Atlas of H. S. Tanner without Tanner's name mentioned on the title page, bound in contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt-decorated title label on the upper cover; housed in a custom clamshell case with a morocco spine label, 17-1/2 x 14-1/4 in., front hinge cracked but holding, wear and loss at the extremities, ownership label on the front pastedown, thus a good copy only; near fine slipcase. Provenance: Atlanta, Georgia Collection

Condition

front hinge cracked but holding, wear and loss at the extremities, ownership label on the front pastedown, thus a good copy only; near fine slipcase