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Iowa
€90.00*
Engraved map, hand colored in outline and wash when published. A highly interesting antique map showing the state of Iowa around 1846. The fine engraved map shows detailed 31 counties in Iowa, all of them are named. Next to the engraved title of this map a small key for capiatal, county town and common dominions. West of the Iowa counties showqn in yellow body color the Indian teritorries naming the different Indian tribes (Sioux, Saux, Foxes and Iowas). A colorful hand colored map, rich in fine engraved details. This map was published 1846 in Philadelphia by Samuel Augustus Mitchell in his atlas ,A New Universal Atlas containing maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World'. Samuel Augustus Mitchell was starting around 1831 his business as a publisher of atlases and folded maps. Around 1845 he was aquiring the rights from Henry S. Tanner's famous ,New Universal Atlas' from Carey & Hart, who had already the copyright from Tanner in posession. Samuel August Mitchell changed many of the maps, also the printing technique to lithography and published then his atlas in 1846. The atlas was carried on with changes in the maps in several editions until 1850. Then the rights were sold on to Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Karte von Iowa. Nach den neuesten Hülfsmitteln gezeich: von J. Graessl. 1853.
€120.00*
Detailed map of the state of Iowa. Published in Meyer's Zeitungsatlas. Original steel-engraving, contempory hand-colored in outline, when published. A fine example.