[ATLASES] MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1790-1868). A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics of the World, with a Special Map of Each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c. Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait and Company, 1852. Folio (430 x 355 mm). Chromolithographic title, chromolithographic contents leaf, hand-colored lithographic frontispiece, 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. (Overall spotting and browning, minor marginaltears to leaves.) Original red half morocco gilt, green marbled boards, red morocco lettering-piece gilt to upper cover (upper cover detached, spine perished, worn). Cowperthwait purchased Mitchell's copyright in 1850, after which he began issuing Mitchell's atlas.