Mitchell Map of Persia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan & Beloochistan

Plate 78 from the 1866 issue of S. A. Mitchell's New General Atlas, covering Persia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, and Beloochistan. The imprint reads: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."

Beyond its principal subject, the sheet takes in the shorelines of the Black Sea, including the Balkans, Crimea, Russia, and Georgia, a wide sweep of territory in the boundaries and spellings of the mid-nineteenth century. Page size 10 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches (270 x 352 mm).