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Auction 97, Lot 193

"County Map of Florida", Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

Subject: Florida

Period: 1872 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
13.4 x 10.5 inches
34 x 26.7 cm
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Features Mitchell's lovely grapevine border and a large and detailed inset plan of Mobile. Good detail throughout shows Florida with 37 counties. The railroads transverse the northern portion, extending only as far south as the Crystal River region, here named Atsena Otie. The Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp cover the entire southern portion. Miami is named.

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Condition: A

Lightly toned in margins.

Estimate: $75 - $100

Sold for: $80

Closed on 12/5/2001

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