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Maps from Mitchell's 1850 edition of the New Universal Atlas. This was one of the earliest editions of Mitchell's atlas, rarer and generally considered more desirable among collectors of his maps and atlases. This map, A New Map of the World on the Globular Projection, is a double-hemisphere map within a decorative border.
According to scholar Walter W. Ristow, "[b]etween 1831 and 1890, general map and atlas publishing in the United States was dominated by the companies founded by S. Augustus Mitchell in Philadelphia and Joseph H. Colton in New York City." (Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 303). Neither Mitchell nor Colton had formal training in geography or cartography; "[t]heir principal contributions to the success of their respective firms, therefore, was in administration, management, and distribution" (ibid p. 315).