Map of Africa

Philadelphia, 1869. Unbound, colored engraved map, decorative border, 14"x 11". Slight toning and aging; overall bright and clear and in very good shape. Maps are wrapped with acid free board, or in rigid sleeves. The Mitchell family started to produce atlases in 1846, and continued into the early 1890s. Around 1860, S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. took over, and the atlas would be called Mitchell's New General Atlas. This is an attractive colored map of Africa from the 1869 installment of that atlas. The map shows a sizeable unknown territory, and not surprisingly, the map presents some very different political boundaries from more modern times. A small map of the Island of St. Helena is featured in an inset. Ristow 311-313