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1860178Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1860. 14 x 11 1/2 inches. Very good. W. H. Gamble. This is an attractive cartographic artifact highlighting the avenues of ante-bellum commerce. The railroads supplemented the Ohio River and Great Lakes commercial systems. Indiana and Ohio were critical components of the agricultural complex of the northern states. The Ohio River serviced the ports of the states with sugar cotton and rice. These commodities were then spread inward to points as far as New York City and Boston by the rail networks. This map will look good framed and on the wall. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown
1887053297New York: John B. Alden 1887. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine. 183 Pp. Greenish-Black Cloth Stamped In Blind. Reprint 1887. Near Fine But A Few Pencil Notes And Underlinings. Per Wikipedia Ormsby Macknight Or Mcknight Mitchell 1810 -1862 Was An American Astronomer And Major General In The American Civil War. A Multi-Talented Man He Was Also An Attorney Surveyor Professor And Publisher. He Is Notable For Publishing The First Magazine In The United States Devoted To Astronomy. Known In The Union Army As "Old Stars" He Is Best Known For Ordering The Raid That Became Famous As The Great Locomotive Chase During The American Civil War. <br/> <br/> John B. Alden hardcover
1849220695London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1849. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Hardcover; 562 pages. FIRST EDITION. Volume 2 only. Dark blue/green cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on spine. Sunned spine. Some cloth peeling from spine head/tail. Covers decorated with blind-tooled knotwork borders. Moderately shelfworn/rubbed covers. Moderately to heavily bumped corners. Bottom edge cut others deckle. Top edge quite dusty. Bookplate on fep. The endpapers are yellowing. The pages are off-white but bright and clean. VG-/-- <br/> <br/> Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
188157433Jefferson City: Tribune Printing Company state printers and binders 1881. 8vo pp. 25 3; tables in the text; original printed blue wrappers; near fine. Tribune Printing Company, state printers and binders unknown
18941453<p>Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1894 ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper & Brothers New York Date and Numbering: September 1894 Volume LXXXIX Number DXXXII Size and Page Count: 6.5 X 10 Tall approx. 210 pages</p><p>Condition: Good binding good cover has small tears at spine cover front cover has a small address label Illustrations Information:approx. <strong>50 illustrations </strong>and many pages of vintage advertisements!! ----An excellent opportunity for the collector researcher or historian---- Articles and Information:</p><ul><li>The Royal Marine: An idyl of Narragansett Pier part I By Brander Matthews</li><li>Riding to Hounds in England -By Caspar Whitney</li><li>The general's bluff -By Owen Wister</li><li>Early summer in Japan -By Alfred Parsons</li><li>Poem: Within -By Anna C. Anna Callender Brackett</li><li>The golden house chaps. VIII-XIII -By Charles Dudley Warner</li><li>The tug of war -By W.E. William Edward Norris</li><li>Some records of the Ice Age about New York -By Theophil Mitchell Prudden</li><li>A New England prophet -By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman</li><li>Where time has slumbered -By Julian Ralph</li><li>The orgin of a great poem -By John White Chadwick</li><li>Editor's study/Review -By Charles Dudley Warner</li><li>Monthly record of current events</li><li>Illustration: Le monde ou lion S'ennuie -By George Du Maurier</li><li>Fog -By Hayden Carruth</li><li>Editor's drawer/Poem: Owed to summer "a grudge By Albert Payson Terhune</li><li>Mr. Multy's story -By Charles Newton Hood</li><li>Editor's drawer/Cartoon: The Britisher in Rome. To what base uses may we come at last! A vivid He kept his promise -By William H. Siviter Editor's drawer/Poem: Bookworm ballads. A painful discovery By John Kendrick Bangs The microscopically minute. Extracts from a forth-coming American novel By Hayden Carruth With the Naval Reserve -By R.B.C. H.</li><li>Editor's drawer/Cartoon: Disagreeable acquiescence Disagreeable acquiescence Editor's drawer/Poem: On a volume of essays -By Carlyle Smith Editor's drawer/Cartoon: A defence</li><li>Literary notes -By Laurence Hutton</li></ul> Harpers Monthly
188221938Philadelphia: Bradley 1882. 12" x 15". Color engraved map in fine condition. This map of the city of Detroit is from the 1882 edition of Mitchell's New General Atlas. Bradley unknown
1852029111Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co 1852. Cartonado / Hardcover. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º165x135. 1 Vol. de 176 pp Ilustrado. Manual escolar de geografia do século XIX dos Estados Unidos. Muito ilustrado com várias gravuras e mapas. <br/> <br/> Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co hardcover
1885037170London: John Van Voorst 1885. Book. Illus. by Keulemans J. G.; Prout Victor. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. The standard edition. Pp. 224; folding map to the front numerous black and white plates and two hand-coloured plates with tissue guards by Keulemans. Publisher's attractive green cloth gilt and black-stamped decoration and title. Binding very good and bright with light wear only. Contents clean and tight original brown-coated endpapers no inscriptions. The standard edition does not have the list of subscribers found in the large-paper edition and has external dimensions of 187 x 130mm whereas large paper has external dimensions of 220 x 145mm. John Van Voorst Hardcover
184524108London: G.W. Nickisson 1845. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardbacks. Two volumes of three. Very good except for some fading to spine but lettering clear. Previous owner's small ex libris plate in each volume. Vol. I Pp.xxviii334 one page adverts. Vol. II pp.viii332. These two volumes take the story up to Napoleon's exile in Elba. <br/> <br/> G.W. Nickisson hardcover
1827n008A.335GB: Thomas Tegg 1827. Frontispiece/decorated title. 18 plates as called for. Plates are all sound but rather spotted. Text is clean and tight and has been fitted with new endpapers and quite recently rebound in full pale brown leather with slightly raised bands and black title label. A most presentable item. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG/No DW. Thomas Tegg Hardcover
1889102034Century Magazine. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1889. Magazine. ; 11 pages . Century Magazine unknown
1873129Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1873. 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Very good. This a aa large format double page presentation by the Mitchell firm. It provides a larger scale allowing for the inclusion of town level names not seen in their earlier atlas map of the two states. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
1863131Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1863. 14 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches. Very good. This map was included in the Civil War production atlas by Mitchell. As such it was used by the public to follow the news from the newspapers that did not use a map for all actions. A nice artifact with Civil War still available to students of the Civil War. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
1868189Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1868. 13 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Very good condition. This is a two state prevention that includes the entire Upper Peninsula. Vivid contemporary outline color is complemented by wash color by county. This is a finely executed cartographic artifact. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
1870207Philadelphia: Mitchel S. Augustus 1870. 14 x 11 1/4. Very good. Nice small scale presentation of the three states. Hand colored in outline complemented by wash coloring defining the enclosed counties. Railroad lines dominate the presentation with the coastlines defined in deep dark ink. A fine cartographic presentation of the region. Mitchel, S. Augustus unknown
1872128Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1872. 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Very good. Single page presentation of the oblong states of Tennessee and Kentucky. Nice map for framing. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
1874105Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1874. 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Very good. Single sheet is dedicated to two states of similar width and contiguous to each other. The hand coloring is very attractive on this original antique map. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
18631424Philadelphia: : S. Augustus Mitchell 1863. 13-1/2" x 11-1/2" - 34.2 x 29.2 cm. Lithograph with original hand colouring. Minor chips and browning to margins else very good. A detailed and decorative map of Minnesota with scrolling foliate border. Shows towns cities ports rivers lakes and railroad lines. S. Augustus Mitchell, unknown
186097Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1860. 1860. 13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches. Very good. An attractive map of Asia in a single page format from Mitchell's "New General Atlas." The map is hand-colored with definitive border separation from Europe. The travel notations shows London to Madras at 8000 miles; London to Hong Kong at 10800 miles. The all water route from London to the Far East has a complementary land-water route. The water route shows the Suez land bridge being used. Suez Canal was under construction starting April 25 1859. It was completed on November 17 1869 at which time the map would show the same distance. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
18631422Philadelphia: : S. Augustus Mitchell 1863. 13-1/2" x 11-1/2" - 34.2 x 29.2 cm. Lithograph with original hand colouring. Minor chips and staining to margins else very good. A detailed and decorative map of New Hampshire and Vermont with scrolling foliate border. Shows towns cities rivers mountains and railroad lines. S. Augustus Mitchell, unknown
1858174Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1858. 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches. Very good with carefully stenciled full was color. J. H. Young. Colored map of the two states encompassing Lakes Michigan Superior and Huron. Each state has the then extent of county subdivision illustrated. Rail networks are evident. Overall a nice small scale presentation of the two states. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown
187231Philadelphia: Mitchell S. Augustus 1872. 1872 edition. 22 x 14 1/2 inches. Very good. Hand-colored lithograph on a double page format illustrates greater Philadelphia with Camden NJ across the Delaware River. The fine details in this map make it most desirable for framing and hanging in a large space. Mitchell, S. Augustus unknown
1865006704New York: Charles Scribner 1865 First Edition. Brown cloth binding gilt titles top edge gilt. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. 324 pp. Illustrated. Donald Grant Mitchell 1822-1908 was an essayist who was a Washington correspondent of the New York Morning Courier and Enquirer a connection in which he first employed his usual pseudonym of "Ik Marvel." He went to cover the revolution in Paris in 1848 and returned to New York in 1850 to edit a magazine satirizing society named the Lorgnette the twelve issues of which he published later as a book under the pseudonym of "John Timon." This is a book which contemplates country and farm writing throughout history in the works of the Greeks the Romans mediaeval writers in France and Germany and the British. Chipping to spine with small loss of material at top boards faded foxing to endpapers. Good condition. Charles Scribner hardcover
1882181Philadelphia: Bradley 1882. 20 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches. Good with a few minor tears expertly repaired using archival mending tape. This is a superb presentation of Lake Michigan and its two main bordering states. Each county is identified by its own color in the simple three color scheme. Most important is the presentation of sophisticated railroad networks in both states. Maps of Milwaukee and Detroit are printed on the verso of each of the two pages of the map. The map is contained within straight lined neatlines. Bradley unknown
1861281Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell 1861. 14 x 11 1/2 inches. Very good. This map is a beautiful example of the mapmakers art. Printed by lithography and hand colored at the time of publication it was produced for inclusion in the General Atlas. It is beautifully colored to designate the counties of each state. The Hannibal and St. Joseph cuts across the northern part of Missouri. It was the railroad that cut off the commerce of the Mississippi River from St. Louis and redirected it to Chicago via the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad. This map is in very good condition. S. Augustus Mitchell unknown