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Title: Colton's Atlas of the World, Illustrating Physical and Political Geography by George W. Colton. Accompanied by Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, by Richard Swainson Fisher...Volume I.--North and South America, Etc. Author: Colton, George W. Place: New York Publisher: J. H. Colton & Co. Date: 1856 Description: 57 (of 60) hand-colored maps, 2 are double-page, plus insets; added pictorial steel-engraved title page. (Folio) 18½x16, original quarter brown morocco and blind-stamped cloth, front covers decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Volume I of Colton’s important "Atlas of the World". With U.S. maps of: Nebraska and Kanzas (sic) with an extra large Nebraska, no Montana and portions of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin; map for the Territories of New Mexico and Utah showing Fremont's 1844-45 routes; California with an inset of San Francisco and shows Atlantic and Pacific R.R. lines; Washington and Oregon Territories with extended land mass. Also, nice double-page maps of the United States and New York City. City plans for Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, etc. See Phillips Atlases 816. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers detached, a few leaves detached at front, tape repairs in gutters of a few preliminary leaves; lacking plate 16 (New York) and plates 35-36 (Texas); else maps very good. Item number: 219463