1846 Burroughs / Mitchell Map of Argentina, Uruguay, Chili in South America
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Description: This scarce hand colored map is a lithographic engraving of Chili, La Plata and Uruguay, dating to 1846 by the legendary American Mapmaker S.A. Mitchell, the elder. Mostly depicts modern day Argentina. There is an inset of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego on the bottom right. There is no engraver listed, but this is most likely a Burroughs map. H. N. Burroughs is a mysterious transitional engraver, whose work for the Mitchell firm appears in 1846 between that of H.S. Tanner and Mitchell himself. Ristow notes, "Nothing is known about Burroughs, but he was undoubtedly an employee or associate of Mitchell." His fine and detailed work appears only in certain hard to find mid 1840s editions of the Mitchell’s Atlas.
Date: 1846
References: None found.
Cartographer: Samuel Augustus Mitchell the Elder began his map publishing career in the early 1830s. Having worked as a school teacher, Mitchell was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of school texts of the period. His first maps were an attempt to rectify this problem. In the next 20 years Mitchell would become the most prominent American map publisher of the mid 19th century. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers H. S. Tanner and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell teamed up with printer Cowperthwait & Company to produce the Mitchell’s Universal Atlas and the Mitchell’s General Atlas. In the late 1850s most of the Mitchell copyrights were bought by Desilver and Co. who continued to publish his maps, many with modified borders and color schemes, until Mitchell’s son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, entered the picture. S.A. Mitchell Jr. purchased most of the copyrights back from Desilver and, from 1860 on, published his own New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father and published atlases well into the late 1880s when most of the copyrights were again sold and the Mitchell firm closed its doors for the final time.
Size: Printed area measures 15 x 12.5 inches (38.1 x 31.75 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition. Blank on verso.
Code: LaPlata-m-1946 (Necessary for phone orders : 646-320-8650)
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