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 (433 x 355 mm). Chromolithographic title, chromolithographic contents leaf, hand-colored lithographic frontispiece, 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. (Pale dampstain, other minor stains or browning.) Modern brown cloth, lettering-piece gilt. Cowperthwait purchased Mitchell's copyright in 1850, after which he began issuing Mitchell's atlas.