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Second issue of Mitchell’s publication of the New Universal Atlas of H.S. Tanner, without Tanner’s name mentioned on the front cover or title page. An important atlas, with a number of significant maps: North America with Texas shown as an independent country and the Oregon Territory extending to the sought-after 54 40; a separate map of Texas (the 1845 map of C.S. Williams); the various states of the U.S., many with insets of cities, etc.; separate plans of New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC; Mexico and Guatemala map attributed to H.S. Tanner; plus South America and its regions, Europe and its various states, Asia, Africa, and etc. Phillips notes: “Many maps bear the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell, and the copyright notice of H. N. Burroughs, or of H. S. Tanner. This atlas is a reissue of Tanner’s New Universal Atlas which continued to be published for some years as Mitchell’s New Universal Atlas, without reference to Tanner. [Plate] No. 72, Lengths of the principal rivers in the world [and] Heights of the principal mountains...is bound as [the] frontispiece. The engraved title page has a vignette, ‘First landing of Columbus in the New World.’” – Phillips Atlases 6103.