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[MAP]. –– [MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792–1868)]. A New Map of the State of California, the Territories of Oregon & Utah, and the Chief Part of New Mexico. Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1850 [actually 1852].
Color lithograph (432 x 349 mm) from Mitchell’s “A New Universal Atlas” showing counties in California and New Mexico for the first time, and “Gold Region” in California is no longer labeled as it was in the 1851 edition. (Marginal browning, small tear to upper corner). Phillips 807; Rumsey 0553.001; Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region 225; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 754.