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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: 1855 Description: With 58 total hand-colored maps, 2 are double-page, plus insets. (Folio) 18¼x16, original decorative full brown morocco, stamped in blind on covers, front cover lettered & stamped in gilt. The American volume 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; Texas with two inset plans for Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake and shows roads and trails going into Mexico; 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 (citing the 1856 two volume edition). Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing, edge wear, cover detached, spine perished; title and contents leaf laid in loose, soiling, a few marginal tears and chips; maps mostly very good, hand-coloring still nice and bright; binding in need or repair. Item number: 144291